division of objects into classes and structures is bad
Don
nospam at nospam.com
Tue Dec 30 07:26:15 PST 2008
Christopher Wright wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> The creation of temporaries during expressions is something I'm
>> currently working on solving. The case you mentioned is addressed by a
>> proposal I made long ago:
>
> The easiest way is to add an intermediate struct. This takes a fair bit
> of manual effort, though, and prevents you from using auto.
That particular case is the easiest possible one. The case x = y - x,
for example, is much more difficult to recognize.
>
> Essentially, you need a struct MyClassAddition that just records
> operands. Then give it an implicit cast to MyClass that does the work.
> This is an ugly solution because you need to duplicate the operator
> overloads on MyClassXXX as well as MyClass.
>
> I believe I got this solution from an article by Andrei. It should work
> pretty well for classes that define few overloads.
I'm talking about a language solution. I want to solve this for the
general case.
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