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Re: Template qualifiers

From: language.lawyer_at <language.lawyer_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 15:54:49 +0300
http://wg21.link/P0847

On 29/09/2019 15:52, Phil Bouchard via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> How many time did we have to redundantly write the same member functions just to add a const version? Ex.:
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> struct A
>
> {
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> A & operator = (A const &) { return * this; }
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> A const & operator = (A const &) const { return * this; }
>
> };
>
>
> What I would like to suggest would be to templatize those instances as such:
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> struct A
>
> {
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> template <qualifier Q>
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> A Q & operator = (A const &) Q { return * this; }
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> };
>
>
> This would in instantiate on-the-fly the 2 (or 4) versions of the same code.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>

Received on 2019-09-29 07:57:02