QtD is suspended

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-09-17 04:15:31 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> On a funny note, we figured that for a number of reasons it would help 
> to allow C++-style constructors that offer access to the source; it 
> just turns out some idioms need to modify the source as well as the 
> destination.
> 
> One obvious example is the built-in hashtable that is not shared 
> properly when it's null. Making the copy constructor spring the 
> hashtable to life would make it more uniform in behavior.

At the basic level I feel uneasy with this whole idea of modifying the 
source while copying. It means that you can't copy the source if it is 
const. Do you really want to make const containers uncopyable?

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