const mismatch with defaulted copy constructor)If you have a class with a copy constructor whose parameter type is reference-to-nonconst:
struct MyType {
MyType(MyType&); // no 'const'
};
and you try to aggregate it in a class that has a defaulted copy constructor with the usual signature:
template <typename T>
struct Wrapper {
Wrapper(const Wrapper&) = default;
T t;
};
Wrapper<MyType> var; // fails to instantiate
the resulting type is ill-formed, even if it is never used in a context where the copy constructor is required.
The authors believe this is unnecessarily restrictive; one should be able to use Wrapper<MyType> as
long as one does not try to copy it.
std::tuple is an example of a wrapper type which suffers from this problem in popular implementations.
- [...] A function that is explicitly defaulted shall:
- be a special member function,
- have the same declared function type (except for possibly differing ref-qualifiers and except that in the case of a copy constructor or copy assignment operator, the parameter type may be "reference to non-const T", where T is the name of the member function's class) as if it had been implicitly declared, and
- not have default arguments.
In the case of Wrapper<MyType>, the implicitly declared copy constructor would have the parameter type
MyType& per 12.8.1 [class.copy.ctor] paragraph 7, so an explicitly defaulted copy constructor with the
parameter type const MyType& is ill-formed.
This proposal suggests that if the declared type of an explicitly defaulted function is not the same as if it had been implicitly declared, then it be defined as deleted, rather than being ill-formed.
- [...] A function that is explicitly defaulted shall:
- be a special member function,
have the same declared function type (except for possibly differing ref-qualifiers and except that in the case of a copy constructor or copy assignment operator, the parameter type may be "reference to non-const T", where T is the name of the member function's class) as if it had been implicitly declared, and- not have default arguments.
- If an explicitly defaulted function does not have the same declared function type (except for possibly differing ref-qualifiers and except that in the case of a copy constructor or copy assignment operator, the parameter type may be "reference to non-const T", where T is the name of the member function's class) as if it had been implicitly declared, it is defined as deleted.
This proposal would resolve Core Issues #1331 and #1426, both of which are in Extension status, and are tracked by corresponding Evolution Issues #101 and #103, respectively.