Re: std::bless

From	"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c++
Subject	Re: std::bless
Date	2020-01-05 16:33 -0800
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On 1/5/2020 4:11 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> writes:
> [...]
>> Uhh. Calm down, what is that std::bless even supposed to be? Never heard
>> of it.
> 
> It's mentioned in this proposal, "Implicit creation of objects for
> low-level object manipulation" published 2018-02-11:
>      http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0593r2.html
> It looks similar to std::launder, introduced in C++17.

Thanks for the reference. I have not experienced std::bless yet, but 
have heard of std::launder. Never used them.


> 
> Perl has a built-in "bless" function.  I presume that's where the name
> came from.
> 
> It's not mentioned in the latest C++ draft standard.
>

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std::bless Mr Flibble <flibbleREMOVETHISBIT@i42.co.uk> - 2020-01-05 20:53 +0000
  Re: std::bless Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2020-01-05 15:00 -0800
    Re: std::bless Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-01-05 16:11 -0800
      Re: std::bless "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2020-01-05 16:33 -0800

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