Re: [boost] [move] new rvalue reference emulation

Subject: Re: [boost] [move] new rvalue reference emulation
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-11 13:51:34

On 4/11/2011 8:03 AM, Edward Diener wrote:
> On 4/10/2011 9:22 PM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr.<
>> jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> [...snipping original description...]
>>
>> I have a follow-up to my original message regarding a typeless emulated
>> rvalue reference. I was disappointed in the lack of feedback (other than
>> Dave) on the original message, which might mean that those who took
>> the time
>> to parse the message didn't think it was worth pursuing; maybe C++03 is
>> already too outdated and we should forget about it? However, at the
>> moment,
>> I prefer to think that everyone (except, again, Dave; thanks Dave!) was
>> simply too busy to delve into what I was trying to convey. So let me try
>> again, with a longer, more detailed, and more leisurely explanation, and
>> this time I additionally present a partial solution to extend the
>> technique
>> to quasi-polymorphic result types (I'll explain what I mean below).
>
> This is no doubt a disappointing response to your wonderful post, but I
> believe I can tell you why you received so little feedback. 'Move' is a
> C++0x concept which current C++ programmers view as an optimization, not
> a core programming issue, and is not supported by many current C++
> compilers except in some sort of C++0x mode. Boost.Move may have brought
> the idea to programmers but it is not yet in Boost itself for some
> reason. So as disappointing as it may seem, very probably many
> programmers, like myself, know very little about 'Move', So it is not
> that C++03 is outdated but exactly the opposite, which is that C++0x is
> not here yet nor is Boost.Move and therefore the issues which 'Move'
> entails is not something of which most C++ programmers are not aware.

Correction. I meant to end with "which most C++ programmers are aware."