Re:Writing a custom iterator in modern C++
by gpderetta on Monday December 21, 2020 @07:09AM
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> regarding "modern C++", I have seen that moniker applied to even language features that were already available in pre-ISO C++98, like RAII, or type safe collections.
That's not surprising as modern C++ predates C++11. Newer standards "merely" make it more convenient to practice it.
At the end of the day, modern c++ is really about emphasizing value types, RAII and parametric polymorphism as opposed to OOP.
Anyway, these days we have it good conformance to new standards comes relatively quickly. It took forever for most compilers to be C+98 conformant (and technically most never reached it).
Apparently too many people still keep using C++ compilers to compile C code, not surprising when there are schools still using Turbo C++ for MS-DOS as teaching tool, as per one of Bjarne talks.
Back to C++20, C++ is no longer my main tool, but I still follow up on it and one of my hobbies is checking new standard features, hardly everything works at is supposed to be and I expect the usual three years for stabilization, so when C++23 will be around the corner, is when I expect all major compilers to fully support C++20 without triggering some kind of compiler error.