Well, in that case we already we can use `std::minmax({a, b-a});`
But my point is that this type of mistake is far too easy to do... A second
approach is to make minmax simply ill-formed if it is called with temporary
arguments, but that would make it harder to use.

// Robin

On Thu, Mar 6, 2025, 11:50 Sebastian Wittmeier via Std-Proposals <
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> A workaround could be to create a function receiving any tuple and
> returning a tuple where the reference is dropped for each element and
> copies are made.
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> auto [min, max] = tuple_values(std::minmax(a, b - a));
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> Perhaps there could be a syntax sugar similar to auto, auto&, auto&&,
> decltype(auto)
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