Re: [boost] [xint] Boost.XInt formal review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Boost.XInt formal review
From: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-07 08:10:19

On 07/03/11 14:00, Sebastian Redl wrote:

> Nope, won't work. Lifespan extension extends the life of temporary
> objects to the life of the concrete reference they're bound to. 'local'
> is not a temporary, and the concrete reference it is bound to is the
> argument of the * operator in x*local, which is gone before 'that' is
> even initialized.

That's what I thought liek 10ns after hitting send.

> The problem with the whole thing is that the lifetime becomes
> complicated, so it's very hard for a C++ programmer to see if a piece of
> code is correct.

Now, is it a proto problem or a 0x problem ?
i think the latter