Re: How to detect const reference to temporary issues at compile or runtime?

From:
SG <s.gesemann@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:35:26 CST
Message-ID:
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On 2 Dez., 13:11, Daniel Kr?gler wrote:

In fact the new C++0x library follows a similar approach in regard to
the class template reference_wrapper (which is quite similar to class Y
above):

template <class T> reference_wrapper<T> ref(T&);
template <class T> reference_wrapper<const T> cref(const T&);
template <class T> void ref(const T&&) = delete;
template <class T> void cref(const T&&) = delete;
template <class T> reference_wrapper<T> ref(reference_wrapper<T>);
template <class T> reference_wrapper<const T> cref(reference_wrapper<T>);

and the class template synopsis:

template <class T> class reference_wrapper
[..]
{
public :
      [..]
   // construct/copy/destroy
   reference_wrapper(T&);
   reference_wrapper(T&&) = delete; // do not bind to temporary objects
   reference_wrapper(const reference_wrapper<T>& x);
      [..]
};


Hmm... Is an implicit constructor a good idea here? I think we could
make reference_wrapper safer to use if the constructor was explicit.
Then, initializing such a reference_wrapper via copy initialization
forces us to use std::ref or std::cref respectivly -- which would be
nice, I guess. I find such classes with implicit constructors that
store the address of an argument somewhat disturbing.

Or do we rely on this implicit "conversion" somewhere in the new
standard library?

Cheers!
SG

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