Re: [boost] [variant] Please vote for behavior

Subject: Re: [boost] [variant] Please vote for behavior
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-30 20:37:38

on Wed Jan 30 2013, Paul Smith <pl.smith.mail-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> What the language semantics are designed for, what the standard
> library guarantees and effectively requires, and what the committee
> seem to advocate for, are conservative move-semantics - ones that
> require that a moved-from object maintains its invariants (in the case
> of the library - its requirements). 

An object always maintains its invariants during its lifetime.

> On the other hand we have destructive move-semantics, 

In what sense are you claiming that we "have" destructive
move-semantics?  Nobody has ever implemented or even fully-specified
destructive move semantics AFAIK.  Destructive move semantics are (at
this time) nothing more than a fantasy some people have about what they
think would be a better world.

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