C++ trick I pulled today. Like an explicit constructor but context dependent. Any alternatives from folks who've needed to do similar? One thing I still need to dig into a little deeper is how copy elision behaves here.

  • lawmurray@programming.dev
    hexagon
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    1 year ago

    That's a fair criticism around relying on implicit type conversion mechanics, and part of the tradeoff to make. On the other hand, I imagine (and my imagination may be limited) that one downside of static_assert is to increase verbosity, something like:

    auto r = f();
    static_assert(std::is_same_v<decltype(r),MyReturnType>> || !is_expensive_conversion_v<MyReturnType>);
    return r;