Re: [PATCH] cleaning before = assignment lotuswordpro/source/filter/xfilter/xfparastyle.cxx

On 07/19/2012 11:03 PM, julien2412 wrote:
> Thank you David for the hint!
> I re read the "An in-depth explanation" part of
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3279543/what-is-the-copy-and-swap-idiom/3279550#3279550,
> it's great ! I understood when and above all how the memory is cleaned.
>
> About your multidimalgorithm, what would be the problem if it'd be changed
> like this ? (to sum up: passing parameter by value to optimize)

It's a well-known but (in my impression) not-too-widely used idiom.  And 
IIRC it even has no drawbacks (which is sometimes hard to tell, C++ 
being so baroque and fragile that something that looks rather innocuous 
can actually be an epic catastrophe).

Stephan