[motorest]

I've worked with C++ for a number of years, with a few codebases that were >1M LoC. Never did I stumbled upon a situation where an object was moved and an existing symbol became a problem. I wonder what you are doing to get yourself in that situation.

[DLoupe]

> I wonder what you are doing to get yourself in that situation.

The problem with the current move semantics is that, compared to e.g. Rust: 1) the compiler generates unnecessary code and 2) instead of just implementing class T you must implement a kind of optional<T>.

Which means, that after all those years of using smart pointers I find myself ditching them in favor of plain pointers like we did in the 90's.

[catlifeonmars]

When you say you must, do you mean that it’s best practice, that or that this is UB or similar?

[motorest]

> When you say you must, do you mean that it’s best practice, that or that this is UB or similar?

I'm not OP, but the only requirements that C++ imposed on moved-from objects is that they remain valid objects. Meaning, they can be safely destroyed or reused by reassigning or even moving other objects into them. I have no idea what OP could be possibly referring to.

[motorest]

> The problem with the current move semantics is that, compared to e.g. Rust: 1) the compiler generates unnecessary code and 2) instead of just implementing class T you must implement a kind of optional<T>.

I don't know what you mean by "compiler generates unnecessary code" or why you see that as a problem. I also have no idea what you mean by "a kind of optional". The only requirement on moved-from objects is that they must be left in a valid state. Why do you see that as a problem?

[DLoupe]

The compiler generates code for calling the destructor after the object was moved. This was problem #1.

Regarding #2, take Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) as an example - in RAII, the existence of an object implies the existence of a resource. Now, if you want to be able to move, the object becomes "either the resource exists or it was moved out". As someone else noted in the comments, this affects not only the destructor. Methods cannot assume the existence of the resource, they have to check it first. Kind of like optional<MyResource>.