From: Mark Hubbart <discordantus@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T02:38:58+09:00
Subject: Re: want_object? - possible?

On 3/24/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:38:54 +0900, Berger, Daniel
> <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> > I suppose there's the danger of the slippery slope, where we start
> > adding more and more context checking methods, like want_lvalue?,
> > want_rvalue?, etc, and things get out of control.
> 
> Um. I oppose this for the sole reason that it looks, smells, sounds,
> and feels far too much like wantarray from Perl. I think that is one
> of Perl's nastiest features.

I wholly agree with that. Perhaps a different name would have less
stink. "uses_return_value?", perhaps? Or maybe "needs_return_value?".
I think that's a little more descriptive, to boot; it lets you know
there's a little magic going on behind the scenes.

I am still unsure as to whether this would be a good idea, I haven't
run through all the potentials for abuse yet. And i don't know if it
would even be possible to implement.

cheers,
Mark