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Re: Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments?

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Nikolay Ivchenkov<tsoae@mail.ru> writes:
> Currently we can easily implement forwarding without any library
> components:
>
>      template<class T>
>          void f(T&&t)
>              { g(static_cast<T&&>(t)); }
>
> And in fact, std::forward (where it is applicable) does not have
> significant advantages over plain static_cast operator.

Sure it does:  it expresses intent, which makes user code easier to
understand.

Names are a good thing.  :)

Sure the extra verbosity can be annoying or even make code less
readable for operations which are very common (e.g. "+" vs. "plus"),
but I find it hard to believe std::forward falls into that category...

-Miles

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Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments? Nikolay Ivchenkov <tsoae@mail.ru> - 2011-11-09 19:10 -0600
  Re: Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments? Daniel Krügler<daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-10 07:58 -0800
  Re: Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments? Arne Mertz<arnemertz@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-10 10:41 -0800
    Re: Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments? Nikolay Ivchenkov<tsoae@mail.ru> - 2011-11-11 13:04 -0800
      Re: Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments? Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> - 2011-11-12 11:33 -0800
        Re: Should we have a core language operator for forwarding arguments? Nikolay Ivchenkov<tsoae@mail.ru> - 2011-11-12 21:46 -0800

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