Re:Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20
by devnullbrain on Monday November 28, 2022 @08:28PM
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I mean constructors. It's the exception to have to do anything meaningful in the body of a constructor in modern C++ - you can do a lot with member initialisation lists, delegated constructors and defaulted/deleted constructors (remember boost::noncopyable?). And your assignment operators will actually be exception safe.
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Re:Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20
by kajaktum on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:41AM
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Constructors was a mistake. Stupid and simple initialisation like Rust and Go is the way to go forward.
Re:Const vs. constexpr vs. consteval vs. constinit in C++20
by JonChesterfield on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @09:10AM
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Constructors induced exceptions, and once we have exceptions they became the failure reporting mechanism of the standard library, leaving us with goto-some-other-function-using-dynamic-scope as one of the foundation blocks of the language. Thus constructors are a reasonable contender for the worst design mistake in C++.