On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:57 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Again, what's "that"? The decay?
>

Yeah, by "that" I was referring to the decay. It is UB, right?

It is certainly a huge change. What should `+a` do? This is _widely_
> used as an idiomatic "please decay". Should it stop decaying and give
> back the float[4] unchanged?
>
> What should `a + 3` do? This has well defined semantics and it's _super
> widely_ used. Are you suggesting to break that code?
>

I've never seen code that adds to an array to decay it in my life. Anyway,
I wasn't proposing that adding a number to the array adds it to every
element (although I would have if I thought of it, but if it creates issues
then lets not add it).

And it's not just about the operators themselves: how do you pass a SIMD
> float[4] to a function? How do you return one from a function? Today a
> function like `void f(float[4])` has a precise meaning (that has nothing
> to do with SIMD).


Functions that take arrays can just perform SIMD on the passed array. About
returning SIMD, it's the same issue as returning arrays. I don't know why
we can't return arrays since computers are perfectly capable of doing that.