What are the use cases for having a function return by const value for non-builtin type?

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Basically, there’s a slight language problem here.

std::string func() {
    return "hai";
}

func().push_back('c'); // Perfectly valid, yet non-sensical

Returning const rvalues is an attempt to prevent such behaviour. However, in reality, it does way more harm than good, because now that rvalue references are here, you’re just going to prevent move semantics, which sucks, and the above behaviour will probably be prevented by the judicious use of rvalue and lvalue *this overloading. Plus, you’d have to be a bit of a moron to do this anyway.

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