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C++ try not to add footguns challenge (impossible) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A screenshot from the linked article titled "Reflection in C++26", showing reflection as one of the bullet points listed in the "Core Language" section

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I imagine reflections would make the process more straightforward, requires expressions are powerful but either somewhat verbose or possibly incomplete.

For instance, in your example foo could have any of the following declarations in a class:

void foo();
int foo() const;
template <typename T> foo(T = { }) &&;
decltype([]() { }) foo;

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if there's anything enable_if can do that concepts can't do somewhat better but yeah there's definitely a lot of subtleties that reflection is going to make nicer or possible in the first place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, std::enable_if is straight up worse, they're unreadable and don't work when two function overloads (idk about variables) have the same signature.

I'm not even sure enable_if can do something that constraints can't at all...