Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell
by pjmlp on Thursday June 17, 2021 @02:06AM
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That only works because the Editions get updated after being released.
The same can happen to ISO C and C++, that is what technical revision documents are for.
> Therefore, the answer to the question of, say, “what is a valid C++14 program?” changes over time, up until the publication of C++17, and so forth. In practice, the situation is a bit more complicated when compiler vendors offer conformance modes for specific language revisions (e.g. -std=c++11, -std=c++17). Vendors may consider defect resolutions to apply to any historic revision that contains the defect (whereas ISO considers only the most recent publication as the Standard).
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p213...
In both cases, it is expected that compilers update their understanding what a specific language revision means.
C/C++ std switches freeze the entire language and disable newer features. Editions don't. Rust 2015 edition isn't an old version of Rust. It's the latest version of Rust, except it allows `async` as an identifier.
Editions don't really have an equivalent in C, but they're closer to being like trigraphs than the std compilation switch.