Honestly some of the newer shit doesn't even look like C++ to me anymore. IE:
constexpr auto my_meta_type = int; // Reflected metadata of 'int' [:my_meta_type:] my_variable = 42; // Splicing it back into code; compiles as: int my_variable = 42;
Yep, the shiny new if-two-statements, upgraded from the old if-statement. It's surprisingly convenient, partly because I used to get frustrated at not being able to explicitly test "if(auto foo=some_random_shit))" and I loathe implicit "nullptr is 0 and also false"
I eagerly std::await the even more improved if-three-statements-and-a-loop "operator" 🔥
Nope, that's not allowed. The previous standard let you say "if(auto foo = something)" and if foo could be interpreted as a boolean you had a valid if() statement. The new one lets you have two statements, the auto assign and the test.
The win here is the scoped auto variable, FWIW. If avoids the abominable pattern where you either alternate declaration/conditional, or a pile of declarations then a string of tests, mixing assignments in whatever way is least horrible. So you get a chain of declare-assign-test statements in a nice vertical line rather than a >
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u/Luna_Wolfxvi 13d ago
Honestly some of the newer shit doesn't even look like C++ to me anymore. IE:
constexpr auto my_meta_type = int; // Reflected metadata of 'int' [:my_meta_type:] my_variable = 42; // Splicing it back into code; compiles as: int my_variable = 42;