C++ Primer Plus

Forcing a Move

Move constructors and move assignment operators work with rvalues. What if you want to use them with lvalues? For instance, a program could analyze an array of some sort of candidate objects, select one object for further use, and discard the array. It would be convenient if you could use a move constructor or a move assignment operator to preserve the selected object. However, suppose you tried the following:

Useless choices[10];Useless best;int pick;... // select one object,  set pick to indexbest = choices[pick];

The choices[pick] object is an lvalue, so the assignment statement will use the copy assignment operator, not the move assignment operator. But if you could make choices[pick] look like an rvalue, then the move assignment ...