C++ 20: The Core Language

Re:C++ 20: The Core Language by cpeterso on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:29PM (#21456328)

Here is a proposal (from CppCon 2019) to create C++ epochs to drop support for old misfeatures in new code (inspired by Rust's epochs). Code written in the new epoch would still be fully backwards-compatible with older C++ versions and compilers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdKFoQxRqM

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Re:C++ 20: The Core Language by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @05:20PM (#21457399)

Here’s the corresponding paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p188...

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Re:C++ 20: The Core Language by Crinus on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:19AM (#21462186)

So you'll not only need to know all these sublanguages (epochs) but also how they interact with each other, especially when you need to refactor code that needs to cross these "epoch boundaries" (refactor the functionality not just to "upgrade" to a different epoch). Who comes up with that stuff? :-/

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