Hi Desmond,

Your idea sounds like a portion of
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p1046r2.html
"Automatically Generate More Operators"
of which the status seems... fairly stagnant? but it's hard to tell.
https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/604

–Arthur


On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 7:12 AM Desmond Gold Bongcawel via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I have seen some implementations where the majority of the definition of
> overloaded post-increment or decrement are common.
>
> I proposed a feature where you can only "explicitly" default the following
> operators:
>
> class_name operator++(int) = default;
> class_name operator--(int) = default;
>
> where they both rely on the pre-increment and decrement operators. The
> rough equivalent may be:
>
> class_name operator++(int) {
> auto temp = *this;
> ++*this;
> return temp;
> }
>
> class_name operator--(int) {
> auto temp = *this;
> --*this;
> return temp;
> }
>
> I hope this one could help even if it's a minor addition.
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