Changeset 7d94d805


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Timestamp:
Feb 6, 2018, 3:33:27 PM (7 years ago)
Author:
Aaron Moss <a3moss@…>
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ADT, aaron-thesis, arm-eh, ast-experimental, cleanup-dtors, deferred_resn, demangler, enum, forall-pointer-decay, jacob/cs343-translation, jenkins-sandbox, master, new-ast, new-ast-unique-expr, new-env, no_list, persistent-indexer, pthread-emulation, qualifiedEnum, resolv-new, with_gc
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2b8bc41, 86c934a
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69ce455
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First draft of references section in paper

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  • doc/papers/general/Paper.tex

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    12611261This initialization of references from lvalues rather than pointers can be considered a ``lvalue-to-reference'' conversion rather than an elision of the address-of operator; similarly, use of a the value pointed to by a reference in an rvalue context can be thought of as a ``reference-to-rvalue'' conversion.
    1262 \CFA includes one more reference conversion, an ``rvalue-to-reference'' conversion.
    1263 
    1264 \TODO{finish reference conversions; look at user manual}
    1265 
     1262\CFA includes one more reference conversion, an ``rvalue-to-reference'' conversion, implemented by means of an implicit temporary.
     1263When an rvalue is used to initialize a reference, it is instead used to initialize a hidden temporary value with the same lexical scope as the reference, and the reference is initialized to the address of this temporary.
     1264This allows complex values to be succinctly and efficiently passed to functions, without the syntactic overhead of explicit definition of a temporary variable or the runtime cost of pass-by-value.
     1265\CC allows a similar binding, but only for @const@ references; the more general semantics of \CFA are an attempt to avoid the \emph{const hell} problem, in which addition of a @const@ qualifier to one reference requires a cascading chain of added qualifiers.
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    12671267\subsection{Constructors and Destructors}
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