On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:13:43 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>>   Personally I'm drooling over rvalue references, which will allow for  
>> much more efficient move semantics.
>
> My understanding is that informally, this lets you match a template or  
> overload where one or more of the arguments is, essentially, guaranteed  
> to not be aliased.  Is this a reasonable summary?


Not really, at least not the way I understand it.

R-value references are basically just a way to bind temporaries to  
non-const references. Specifically, they facilitate move constructors  
which are much like copy constructors except that they may destructively  
alter the source of the "copy".


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FE

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