On 29/06/2023 09.22, Harald Achitz via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Is the discussion about `auto _ = f()` actually done?

The "underscore identifier" feature was approved in Varna and
will be in the next working draft.

> Just asking since I still think it's a bad idea to allow that as a short form to ignore return values for functions marked as [[nodiscard]]

It seems longer than (void)f()
which also force-ignores the return value.

Jens


> On 2023-06-16 14:25, Chris Ryan via Std-Proposals wrote:
>> P2169 has been actively discussed (yesterday & today, literally minutes ago) and bouncing back & forth between EWG(evolution) & CWG(core) adjusting the usage under special cases. Things are looking good. It is potentially likely (no guarantees) that _ (an underscore) will be an unnamed placeholder in C++26 usable in many/most places you would normally have an identifier including structured bindings.
>>
>> Chiris++;
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 5:34 PM Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> See P2169 A Nice Placeholder With No Name
>>
>>
>>
>> https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p2169r3.pdf
>>
>> https://github.com/cplusplus/papers/issues/878
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> *Von:* Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>
>> *Gesendet:* Sa 10.06.2023 16:27
>> *Betreff:* [std-proposals] Dummy names for dummy objects
>> *An:* std-proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]>;
>> *CC:* Frederick Virchanza Gotham <cauldwell.thomas_at_[hidden]>;
>> Sometimes I have code like this:
>>
>> void Func(void)
>> {
>> OnScopeExit dummy( [](){ ::close(global_fd); } );
>>
>> // Do more stuff here
>> }
>>
>> If I later amend this function so that further down there's another
>> 'OnScopeExit', then I have to name the second one "dummy1", and the
>> third one "dummy2" and so on.
>>
>> For the sake of making it easier to patch source files, I propose that
>> we can give an object a dummy name as follows:
>>
>> void Func(void)
>> {
>> OnScopeExit __dummy( [](){ /* Do Something */ } );
>>
>> // Do more stuff here
>>
>> OnScopeExit __dummy( [](){ /* Do Something */ } );
>>
>> // Do more stuff here
>>
>> OnScopeExit __dummy( [](){ /* Do Something */ } );
>> }
>>
>> These objects don't have a name clash. If you try to access an object
>> by the name '__dummy', it accesses the most recently defined dummy
>> object:
>>
>> void Func(void)
>> {
>> OnScopeExit __dummy( [](){ /* Do Something */ } );
>>
>> // Do more stuff here
>> _dummy.SomeMethod(); // refers to the object defined 3 lines above
>>
>> OnScopeExit __dummy( [](){ /* Do Something */ } );
>>
>> // Do more stuff here
>> _dummy.SomeMethod(); // refers to the object defined 3 lines above
>>
>> OnScopeExit __dummy( [](){ /* Do Something */ } );
>> }
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