On Tuesday, November 06, 2012 20:40:38 Manu wrote: > Yeah I really don't understand how 'auto ref' entered this conversation? It > completely misses the point.
The _entire_ reason that auto ref was introduced in the first place was to solve the const ref problem. That's what it's for. It wouldn't exist otherwise. So, it's completely relevant to any discussion of const ref. However, Walter misunderstood what Andrei meant by the feature, so it only got implemented for templates, and given how Walter implemented it, it _can't_ be implemented with non-templated functions. But it could be implemented with slightly different semantics such that it solves the const ref problem as orignally intended. It's just that it would then have slightly different semantics between templated and non-templated functions. - Jonathan M Davis
