Re: [boost] [filesystem] windows/posix inconsistencies.

Subject: Re: [boost] [filesystem] windows/posix inconsistencies.
From: Michel Morin (mimomorin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-02 09:30:32

Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Thorsten Ottosen
> <thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I guess with the new & (I don't know of any compilers that have implemented
>> it yet) feature we could have these overloads in path:
>>
>> const string& string() const;
>> string        string() const &&;
>>
>> so when a temporary path object is returned from path::extension(), the
>> second overload is selected.
>
> Interesting! I'm clueless about that use of &&. Need to do some reading.

Clang 2.9 and 3.0 have this feature (rvalue references for *this).

Regards,
Michel