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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by Conscat on Monday March 30, 2026 @01:36PM (#47577321)
> Why, for example, is printing the source-code text of an enum value so goddamn hard?

Aside from this being trivial in C++26, imo it isn't actually that tricky. Here's a very quick implementation I made awhile ago: https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/3f54e47f0ed182771fce...

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Re:C++26 is done ISO C++ standards meeting, Trip Report by jesse__ on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @06:58AM (#47585516)
> Aside from this being trivial in C++26

Great, it took them 51 years to make a trivial operation trivial. Call me next millennium when they start to figure out the nontrivial stuff, I guess.

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