C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma

Re:C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma by maccard on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:07PM (#47392989)

I completely agree with you.

That said, I wish code written for gcc v28 didn't have to be binary compatible with C++ that was last compiled in 2008...

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Re:C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma by PaulDavisThe1st on Sunday March 15, 2026 @09:12PM (#47393946)

It isn't.

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Re:C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma by maccard on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:20AM (#47396710)

And yet GCC and MSVC both refuse to break ABI and have done so for over a decade.

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Re:C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:40PM (#47405307)

Some of us have been writing code for quite a bit longer than that.

The 2000's and C++ were a clusterfuck largely for this very reason.

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Re:C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma by maccard on Friday March 20, 2026 @11:14AM (#47455796)

I’ve been writing c++ since before then too. A lot has changed in the world, notably package managers are actually used with c++ these days.

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Re:C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma by gpderetta on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @05:59AM (#47423642)

MSVC used to break library ABI pretty much on every release. They stopped after overwhelming customer demand.

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