Re: Const Considerations

From:
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++.moderated
Date:
21 Nov 2006 07:10:45 -0500
Message-ID:
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Denise Kleingeist wrote:

James Kanze wrote:

Mulitple return values would change a lot if we also had
multiple assigns, like some languages. But we don't, and I
can't quite see how to make them fit into the C++ grammar.


Multiple returns and multiple assigns already arrived in C++:

  std::tr1:tuple<int, double, std::string> f() {
    return std::tr1::make_typle(1, 1.0, "one");
  }

  int main() {
    int i = 0;
    double d = 0;
    std::string s = "zero";
    std::tr1::tie(i, d, s) = f();
  }


Yes, but it requires a different syntax:-). And does it support
things like:

     std::tr1::tuple< int, double > f() { ... }

     std::tr1::tie( i, d, s ) = ??( f(), "some text" ) ;

Not sure what syntax would be appropriate for the last part.

It's probably sufficient for most uses, but I still can't quite
see myself writing:
     std::tie( x, y ) = std::tuple< int, int >( y, x ) ;
instead of:
     std::swap( x, y ) ;

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