Re: [boost] Re: Re: Pretty Good Initialization Library

From: Rob Stewart (stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-09 16:40:35

From: Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]>
> Rob Stewart wrote:
> 
> > It's certainly not to be done without understanding the
> > ramifications.  Clearly, the average user doesn't know anything
> > about sequence points and those of us aware of them don't always
> > remember all of the rules.  Thus, it can be dangerous to overload
> > operator, and thus a coding guideline that warns against it is
> > warranted.
> 
> But the same user will be equally unprepared to unspecified evaluation order 
> in
> 
>    A = get(), get(), get();
> 
> and in
> 
>    A.assign_list(get())(get())(get()) ;
> 
> There's nothing specific about operator,();

Ah, but the user that would be confused by those things is also
far less likely to do them.  The initialization library brings to
the fore a dark corner of the language of which most programmers
are unware.

-- 
Rob Stewart                           stewart_at_[hidden]
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