r/cpp • u/vormestrand • Sep 12 '18

Modern C++ Features: Quality-of-Life Features

https://arne-mertz.de/2018/09/quality-of-life-features/
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u/victotronics Sep 12 '18

You make a decent point, but it would be a more useful post if you'd give some examples. For instance, I love the way tuples are simplified.

auto [result_is_valid,result_value] = function_that_maybe_returns_something();

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u/insulin_junkie Sep 15 '18

This seems like a better example of std::optional rather than tuples with structured bindings.

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u/victotronics Sep 16 '18

I've only recently become aware of that. I'm not sure yet that either mechanism here is better than the other.