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On harmful overuse of std::move - The Old New Thing (devblogs.microsoft.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@BatmanAoD @Miaou It is just what you are used to.
In C++ everything is a copy. Sometimes the compiler optimizes it away. clang-tidy may help. Having a clone() is very C-like.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's a common idiom but the default behaviour is still implicit copy, which, with VLAs and no smart pointers, makes things arguably worse than in c++