220 41484 article Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pedro Alves Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Allow array as function return value Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:48:16 +0000 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: References: <8a165c32-718a-4247-93b4-44235a2cf122@isocpp.org> <65d69c2c-3fa1-40a5-8120-53bfd345ac90@isocpp.org> <7eac0e9f-4042-45d6-93b3-de89ba4ebae0@isocpp.org> Reply-To: std-proposals@isocpp.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="73352"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 To: std-proposals@isocpp.org, Nicol Bolas Original-X-From: std-proposals+bncBDRZRD7VU4BBBA5AXLRQKGQEUR5OMVI@isocpp.org Thu Feb 21 12:48:22 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-wm1-f71.google.com ([209.85.128.71]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gwmpx-000IuY-BU for gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; 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([2001:8a0:f913:f700:75e6:857f:3506:a1f4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id h17sm16489192wrq.17.2019.02.21.03.48.17 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Feb 2019 03:48:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <7eac0e9f-4042-45d6-93b3-de89ba4ebae0@isocpp.org> Content-Language: en-US X-Original-Sender: pedro@palves.net X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alves.ped@gmail.com designates 209.85.220.41 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=alves.ped@gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:41484 Archived-At: On 02/20/2019 03:55 AM, Nicol Bolas wrote: >=20 > On a personal level, the biggest problem I have with increasing the use o= f C-arrays is syntactic. Just look at one of your examples: >=20 > char abc1D()[3] { return {'a','b','c'}; } >=20 > If the `[3]` applies to the `char` as part of the return type, why is it = on the other side of the function name? The return type should be either on= the left or the right; it shouldn't be scattered between them. My first th= ought was that you were somehow creating an array of functions, not a funct= ion that returns an array. Not arguing for this in any way, but I'd think that syntax-wise, this would be much clearer: auto abc1D()-> char[3] { return {'a','b','c'}; } Curiously, seems like that actually compiled with GCC up until v7. See: https://godbolt.org/z/aE5l8I gcc 8 errors out with error: 'abc1D' declared as function returning an array and clang errors out with error: function cannot return array type 'char [3]' Pedro Alves --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. 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