One observer's commentary on the standards meeting in process this week, based on the mailing papers and interviewing some delegates by telephone:

The Bristol Papers and the State of C++

[This is] a follow up on the series about the papers for the Bristol Meeting. I'll try to give a little look at C++14, it is slowly taking shape. But as the [Bristol standards] meeting is still going on, there are a lot of pending details missing to put up the facts for C++14. Maybe we have to wait till Chicago for C++14 clearly taking shape. Also I want to cover some of the feedback, and write a little bit about my own view on C++, now after reading all the papers.