On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:15 PM, Kim Gräsman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:25 AM, David Blaikie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Rafael Espindola
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>      llvm::SourceMgr SM;
> >> -    Stream YAMLStream(FileBufOrErr.get().release(), SM);
> >> +    Stream YAMLStream(std::move(FileBufOrErr.get()), SM);
> >
> > Thought: this is actually one place where I more strongly prefer using
> > the pointer-like API of ErrorOr. Seeing "move(x.get())" makes me
> > twitch and think "is that moving a raw pointer? some mistake where the
> > user was trying to indicate transfer of ownership from a unique_ptr
> > and clearly failing". Whereas move(*x) seems clear/sort of better.
>
> I also did a double-take when I updated our tool and saw this. I
> considered std::move(*x), and I agree that it's less confusing, but I
> wonder if something more explicit could be done with ErrorOr to move
> out its value? A take() method, for example (I can't quite see clearly
> how it would play with move semantics for non-movable T's, exercise
> for the reader.)
>

Strawman:

FooOrErr.takeByMove()

with an enable_if to remove it for non-movable types.

However, I personally I don't find the std::move(*x) to be that problematic.

-- Sean Silva


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