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Add blanket wording for "Returns: *this." on assignment operators #5809

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jwakely opened this issue Sep 3, 2022 · 0 comments
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Add blanket wording for "Returns: *this." on assignment operators #5809

jwakely opened this issue Sep 3, 2022 · 0 comments
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jwakely commented Sep 3, 2022

It seems unnecessary to state everywhere that standard library types' assignment operators return *this.

We should just say in one place that any X::operator= that is declared with a return type of X& returns *this.
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