Hi,
You have introduced a new concept.
Object lifetime suspension.
But that's not how you defend it.
Let me ask you a couple of questions and try to answer them.
- what are the pre-conditions on a type so it can suspended its lifetime ? [...]
Readers of this thread might also be interested in a similar thread from 2018, titled "D1031R1 draft 1 LLFIO with proposed C++ object model and lifetime changes for mapped memory support"
where a similar notion was variously called "stun / revive", "reduce / regenerate", "dehydrate / rehydrate", "deactivate / activate", etc. The idea being that you could take an object's object representation, bring it somewhere else (temporarily?, bring it back to the same place it left from?), and then revivify it into a real C++ object again. (Yes, this is just "serialize / deserialize" by any other name.)
There's actually a proposal out right now, D3858 `restart_lifetime<T>`, which can be viewed as a "rehydrate" operation specific to each type whose "dehydrate" operation is trivial.
–Arthur