śr., 25 sty 2023 o 05:45 Jason McKesson via Std-Proposals
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> On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:07 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo via Std-Proposals
> <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > It's a bit unfortunate that braced lists are still a weird datatype.
>
> They aren't *supposed* to be a datatype. Braced-init-lists,
> grammatically speaking, aren't even *expressions*.
>
> They were supposed to have one job: to initialize objects. As a
> grammatical construct, that's all they do. The `initializer_list` type
> was introduced as a way to provide user-defined initialization of
> objects that take sequences of values.
>
> Unfortunately, that clear, reasonable design is being replaced, bit by
> bit. They're now becoming an expedient way to make small lists of
> numbers as if they were literals. Of course, the fact that
> braced-init-lists *still* are not expressions keeps forcing these
> `initializer_list` hack-fixes onto things instead of finally sitting
> down and deciding what exactly this grammatical construct ought to be
> used for.
>
> It hasn't quite gotten as bad as lambda abuse has gotten, but every
> standard library function that gets an `initializer_list` overload
> when it *isn't* initializing a container is just one more step in that
> process.

Why not use `std::array{1, 2, 3}`? a bit more typing but all these problems
are avoided. And even have better move handling than init list.

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