Re: [lmi] Define special member functions inline?

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 12:30:35 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> On 2017-03-06 10:41, Greg Chicares wrote:
GC> > 
GC> > Okay, then our guideline so far is
GC> >   Write explicitly-defaulted special member functions inline, in the
GC> >   class definition.
GC> > with the rationale that
GC> >   This makes the code clearer, and lets the compiler optimize better.
GC> > [plain text because I don't know '.md']
GC> 
GC> Exceptions: Sometimes it is not possible to define a destructor inside
GC> the class definition, because, e.g.:
GC>  * it is pure virtual and cannot be defined at the point of declaration
GC>  * the class has smart-pointer members of forward-declared types
GC> In such cases, define the destructor out of line in the '.cpp' file.

 FYI: I've added this to my local style file, please see

        https://gist.github.com/vadz/3222ef957769f3a9415caa799113d640

for the (few) rules I have so far.

VZ