I wanted to add a few more things to my meeting trip report. I updated the trip report in-place, but for those who want to see the "diffs" I'll also post just the new parts here as a standalone post:
There were 106 experts at this meeting, officially representing 7 nations. This meeting saw a recent-record number of papers, including over 120 in the pre-meeting mailing.
In addition to the other things I mentioned, we also approved several other interesting changes, including the following highlights:
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Adopted N4230, which allows nested namespace definitions like
namespace A::B::C { }
as a convenient shorthand fornamespace A { namespace B { namespace C { } } }
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Adopted N3922, which fixes the most common pitfall with
auto
and{}
, so thatauto x{y};
now deduces the sane and expected thing, namely the type ofy
. Before this, it deducedinitializer_list
which was unfortunate and surprising. So, fixed. - Adopted N4086, which removes trigraphs. Yes, we removed something from C++... and something that was inherited from C! But wait, there's more...
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Adopted N4190, and actually removed (not just deprecated) several archaic things from the C++ standard library, including
auto_ptr
,bind1st
/bind2nd
,ptr_fun
/mem_fun
/mem_fun_ref
,random_shuffle
, and a few more. Those are now all removed from the draft C++ 17 standard library and will not be part of future portable C++.
We also did work and made progress on a lot of other proposals, including modules. See the pre-meeting mailing for details about papers considered at this meeting.
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