What is the best way to return string in C++?

Question

My question is simple: if I have some class Man and I want to define member function that returns man\'s name, which of the following two variants shall I prefer?

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Answer 1

As we have move-semantics (in C++11), you can use this:

string name();

Even in C++03, this is almost good, as the compiler might optimize this (Search for Return Value Optimization).