[variant.visit] C-style casting in `visit` member
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
P3-Other
- Dominant language
- TeX
- Stars
- 221
- Forks
- 813
- Avg merge
- 16h 4m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 36
Description
The two member visit have c-style casting (V)self in [variant.visit].
From my understanding, using C-style casting is not a best practice and should be avoided.
Would be better to use static_cast (not clear whether the two are completely equivalent in such cases)?
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at [variant.visit], paragraph 11, and locate the corresponding source in the draft. Check whether replacing each C-style cast with static_cast is equivalent in this context, then verify that the rendered wording uses the agreed form in both member visit declarations.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100