std::bless

[Mr Flibble]

Hi,

I find the name of std::bless and the subsequent concept of "blessing" things in C++ as offensive to both my
beliefs (as I am a militant atheist and anti-theist) and to the concept of keeping religion out of the
technical/scientific/engineering arena (similar to the concept of separation of church and state).

I am assuming that this is just a place holder name and that the C++ Committee hasn't been overrun with god bothering fucktards.

/Flibble

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[Öö Tiib]

On Sunday, 5 January 2020 22:53:49 UTC+2, Mr Flibble wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I find the name of std::bless and the subsequent concept of "blessing" things in C++ as offensive to both my
> beliefs (as I am a militant atheist and anti-theist) and to the concept of keeping religion out of the
> technical/scientific/engineering arena (similar to the concept of separation of church and state).

Uhh. Calm down, what is that std::bless even supposed to be? Never heard
of it.

>
> I am assuming that this is just a place holder name and that the C++ Committee hasn't been overrun with god bothering fucktards.

And also in your proposals you can likely be more constructive.
Propose alternatives std::endow, std::favor, std::preserve and
avoid mentioning fucktards. ;)

[Keith Thompson]

Öö Tiib <oot...@hot.ee> writes:
[...]

> Uhh. Calm down, what is that std::bless even supposed to be? Never heard
> of it.

It's mentioned in this proposal, "Implicit creation of objects for
low-level object manipulation" published 2018-02-11:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0593r2.html
It looks similar to std::launder, introduced in C++17.

Perl has a built-in "bless" function. I presume that's where the name
came from.

It's not mentioned in the latest C++ draft standard.

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[Chris M. Thomasson]

On 1/5/2020 4:11 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> Öö Tiib <oot...@hot.ee> writes:
> [...]
>> Uhh. Calm down, what is that std::bless even supposed to be? Never heard
>> of it.
>
> It's mentioned in this proposal, "Implicit creation of objects for
> low-level object manipulation" published 2018-02-11:
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0593r2.html
> It looks similar to std::launder, introduced in C++17.

Thanks for the reference. I have not experienced std::bless yet, but
have heard of std::launder. Never used them.