Hi, Another thing Darin didn’t mention but I think people should be careful about: The move constructor for std::optional does not clear the is-set flag (while the one for WTF::Optional did).
As a result, you will be having a very bad time if you do a use-after-move of a std::optional. Please make sure to use std::exchange() instead of WTFMove() if you want to leave to std::optional in a clean state for reuse later. Chris Dumez > On Jun 1, 2021, at 8:54 PM, Darin Adler via webkit-dev > <webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> wrote: > > Hi folks. > > We’re getting rid of the WTF::Optional class template, because, hooray, > std::optional is supported quite well by all the C++17 compilers we use, and > we don’t have to keep using our own special version. Generally we don’t want > to reimplement the C++ standard library when there is not a significant > benefit, and this is one of those times. > > Here are a few considerations: > > 1) Since https://commits.webkit.org/238290@main, if you use Optional<> by > mistake instead of std::optional<>, your code won’t compile. (Unless you are > writing code for ANGLE, which has its own separate Optional<>.) > > 2) If you want to use std::optional, include the C++ standard header, > <optional>, or something that includes it. In a lot of cases, adding an > include will not be required since it’s included by widely-used headers like > WTFString.h and Vector.h, so if you include one of those are covered. Another > way to think about this is that if your base class already uses > std::optional, then you don’t need to include it. > > 3) Once the patch in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226437 lands, > includes of <wtf/Forward.h> won’t forward declare optional, and includes of > <wtf/Optional.h> won’t do anything at all. > > — Darin > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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