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PO4116r0: Completing support for emotive programming in C++ -- Pablo Halpern

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A new WG21 paper is available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.

Document number: PO4116r0

Date: 2016-04-01

Completing support for emotive programming in C++

by Pablo Halpern

Excerpt:

There can be no doubt that C++ is an unusually expressive language. A significant part of that expressiveness comes from the ability to use emoticons, not just in comments and string literals, but in the code itself. For example the following (do-nothing) program compiles, links, and runs in all versions of C++: ...

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FaTony said on Apr 1, 2016 06:30 AM:

Why bother with this if we can have Unicode emoji?
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OmerRosler said on Apr 1, 2016 08:22 AM:

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rwdougla said on Apr 1, 2016 10:57 AM:

I believe that simplifying expression of your ideas is a better way forward. As such, I must disagree with "The idea of Unicode in C++ is, frankly, preposterous." in support of https://isocpp.org/blog/2016/04/po3ooro