Re:The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code S...
by nicoburns on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:37PM
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On the other hand, JavaScript very successfully added strict mode that removed features like `eval`. The trick seems to be to ensure that "old code" and "new code" can live side-by-side during a transition period.
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Re:The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code S...
by favorited on Friday January 24, 2020 @03:26PM
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Vittorio Romeo has been proposing[0] an "epochs" feature for C++ which would enable modes like "strict." This would let them define things like const-by-default, requiring nulltpr instead of 0, etc. He's facing some resistance by other WG21 members.
[0] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p188...