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Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer?

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Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> wrote:
> On 2022-07-16 at 20:21, Juha Nieminen wrote:
>> Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> wrote:
>>> There has been proposals for more "obvious" names like enable_move or
>>> allow_move, or make_movable. But they all suffer from the problem of
>>> being a lot longer to type.
>> 
>> And that's a problem because...
> 
> Because std::move(x) is a shorthand for static_cast<T&&>(x) and one 
> important criteria for a shorthand is that is should be shorter.

I have never subscribed to the "brevity over clarity" principle of
programming (which seems awfully popular).

You cannot compare two extremes and argue that the shorter extreme
is better because it's shorter, without taking into account the
middle possibilities that are clearer than both extremes.

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Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-07-15 12:02 +0000
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-15 14:43 +0200
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-07-15 06:18 -0700
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-15 19:09 +0200
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2022-07-15 16:01 +0200
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-07-16 18:21 +0000
      Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Bo Persson <bo@bo-persson.se> - 2022-07-16 21:11 +0200
        Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-07-17 14:28 +0000
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Gawr Gura <gawrgura@mail.hololive.com> - 2022-07-15 08:34 -0700
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2022-07-15 16:03 +0000
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-15 19:12 +0200
      Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2022-07-16 19:24 +0000
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach@gmail.com> - 2022-07-15 23:08 +0200
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-07-16 11:48 +0300
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-07-16 16:31 -0700
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2022-07-16 18:32 -0700
      Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2022-07-19 16:41 -0700
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? wij <wyniijj2@gmail.com> - 2022-07-18 16:14 -0700
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2022-07-19 07:59 +0200
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Anthony Capobianco <kiiwy112@gmail.com> - 2022-07-20 05:11 -0700
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-07-20 15:26 +0300
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Manfred <noname@add.invalid> - 2022-07-21 01:16 +0200
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? "Fred. Zwarts" <F.Zwarts@KVI.nl> - 2022-07-21 09:47 +0200
    Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> - 2022-07-21 09:05 +0000
      Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> - 2022-07-21 13:12 +0300
      Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid> - 2022-07-21 13:09 -0700
  Re: Is std::move() a misleading misnomer? Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-07-20 13:08 -0700

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