> People sometimes call this “a temporary”, but, as is the main point of this article, that’s not necessarily true.

Old habits die hard? It used to always create a temporary right?

> It used to always create a temporary right?

Temporaries could still be elided in some cases before, but the semantics were still understood in terms of temporary objects.

Now some forms of elision are mandatory and elision+RVO semantics are understood as objects being directly created into the final named location.