Interesting point. But for performance reasons, it would be nice to have
at least the possibility to write overloaded functions with return types
of 'void', 'type_x' (and maybe 'const type_x'). Why construct a
temporary object as a return value if it's thrown away by the caller[1]?

Why make a mutable copy of an object if it's not changed anyway?

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