Operator for pass by move

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Wed Dec 21 19:23:20 UTC 2022


On 12/21/22 17:50, deadalnix wrote:
> On Monday, 19 December 2022 at 17:43:12 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> On Monday, 19 December 2022 at 11:12:54 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
>>> Have anybody considered dedicating a specific operator for 
>>> pass-by-move semantics in assignments and argument passing?
>>
>> Is `core.lifetime.move` not good enough?
> 
> There is no reason for either.
> 
> The compiler should definitively be able to move things when appropriate 
> (if they are not reused after) and this is allowed by the current spec.

The reason is that you may want to be explicit about your moves and have 
the type checker complain if it's actually used again. (This is also why 
core.lifetime.move is not great.)


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