[RFC] Characters per line: from punch card (80) to line printer (132) (was: [Patch][OpenMP/OpenACC/Fortran] Fix mapping of optional (present|absent) arguments)

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 22:19, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Or you could write
>
>     auto __c = (__builtin_memcmp(&*__first1, &*__first2, __len) <=> 0);
>     if (__c)
>       return __c;
>
> which is much easier to read, to my eyes anyway.  And it is exactly the
> same for the compiler.

In this case yes, but not in general.

Given:

auto x = foo();
if (bar(x))
{ }
some_type y;

The destructor of x won't run until after y has been destroyed. That's
not at all identical to:

if (auto x = foo(); bar(x))
{ }
some_type y;

Please don't try to tell me how C++ works :-)