Created on 2013-07-02.00:00:00 last changed 136 months ago
A thread on std-discussion[1] has highlighted that
return E;
where E has type void is valid in a function with a return type of 'void' but not valid in a constructor or destructor. There is implementation variance here, and we have examples of code which very reasonably wants to use "return E;" in a constructor, from within the expansion of a macro, and fails on some compilers due to this rule. The inconsistency between "return;" and "return void();" seems extremely jarring here, and I'd like to propose that we treat this as a defect.
(I'm not suggesting that we treat constructors and destructors as having a return type of 'void', as was suggested on the thread on std-discussion, but I'm not opposed to it.)
[1] https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/forum/#!topic/std-discussion/ehqGBMsswjk
Discussed in Chicago 2013 (as the NB comment FI 6), no consensus to make a change, NB comment rejected, the issue is NAD. Vandevoorde said this rubs him the wrong way, because this suggests that a constructor returns nothing even though that's not the case.
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Date | User | Action | Args |
2013-10-11 23:34:25 | admin | set | status: open -> nad |
2013-07-02 00:00:00 | admin | create |