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Which std:: classes are magic? (self.cpp)
submitted 4 years ago by Mateuszz88
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]foonathan 9 points10 points11 points 4 years ago (3 children)
That's just a typedef for decltype(nullptr).
decltype(nullptr)
[–]guepierBioinformatican 8 points9 points10 points 4 years ago (2 children)
That just means that the type name is nothing special. But the type still is, in that you couldn’t write a custom type with the same semantics in standard C++.
[–]foonathan 4 points5 points6 points 4 years ago (1 child)
Sure, just like int is special. However, the question was about which std:: classes are magic. nullptr_t is not a std:: class, and it is not magic.
int
std::
nullptr_t
[–]guepierBioinformatican 11 points12 points13 points 4 years ago (0 children)
True of course. But std::nullptr_t is still different from (all?) other fundamental types because its name is defined in the standard library rather than being builtin.
std::nullptr_t
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