C++14 is Ratified: The View from the June 2014 C++ Standard Meeting -- Michael Wong

By Blog Staff | Sep 8, 2014 06:10 AM | Tags: None

An update on C++ standardization from Michael Wong, who is here at CppCon this week.

C++14 is Ratified: The View from the June 2014 C++ Standard Meeting

by Michael Wong

From the article:

We had one C++ Standard meeting since my last blog post for Issaquah Standard meeting, and that was in Rapperswil, Switzerland in June 16-21. ...

As I am writing this (which is much delayed due to workload and preparation for airplane time again as I begin my fall business trip after 2 months home working on a special project), I am back in [the Seattle area] to attend CPPCon giving 2 talks, 3 panels, and several interviews....

N4137: Business Plan and Convener's Report -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Aug 25, 2014 09:26 AM | Tags: None

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: N4137

Date: 2014-08-25

Business Plan and Convener's Report

by Herb Sutter

Trip Report: Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting (June 2014)

By Blog Staff | Aug 22, 2014 10:50 AM | Tags: None

As we celebrate the approval of C++14 this week, another trip report from the recent ISO C++ meeting:

Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting (June 2014): Core and Library

Red Hat at the ISO C++ Standards Meeting (June 2014): Parallelism and Concurrency

From the articles:

Recently Red Hat sent several representatives to the JTC1/SC22/WG21 C++ Standards Committee meetings, which were held in June 2014 at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, Switzerland...

We have C++14!

By Herb Sutter | Aug 18, 2014 10:37 AM | Tags: None

C++14 is done!

Following the Issaquah meeting in February, we launched the Draft International Standard (DIS) ballot for the next C++ standard. That ballot closed on Friday.

Today, we received the notification that the ballot was unanimously successful, and therefore we can proceed to publication. We will perform some final editorial tweaks, on the order of fixing a few spelling typos and accidentally dropped words, and then transmit the document to ISO for publication this year as the brand new International Standard ISO/IEC 14882:2014(E) Programming Language C++, a.k.a. C++14.

C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup writes: "C++14 was delivered on schedule and implementations are already shipping by major suppliers. This is exceptional! It is a boon to people wanting to use C++ as a modern language."

Thanks very much to our tireless C++14 project editor Stefanus DuToit and his helpers, and to all the members of the C++ standards committee, for bringing in this work on time and at high quality with a record low number of issues and corrections in the CD and DIS ballots!

Not only is this the fastest turnaround for a new standard in the history of C++, but as Bjarne noted this is historic in another way: There are already multiple substantially or entirely conforming implementations (modulo bugs) of C++14 available already today or in the near future -- at the same time C++14 is published. That has never happened before for a C++ (or I believe C) standard. For C++98, the delta between publishing the standard and the first fully conforming implementation being available was about 5 years. For C++11, it was two years. For C++14, the two have merged and we have achieved "time on target."

Thanks again, everyone. This was a team effort.

N4131: Another response to N4074; explicit should never be implicit -- Filip Roséen

By Blog Staff | Aug 14, 2014 03:00 PM | Tags: None

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: N4131

Date: 2014-08-89

Another response to N4074; explicit should never be implicit

by Filip Roséen

Excerpt:

This paper will try to prove why the proposed change of ISO C++ in N4074 shouldn't be allowed using several methods, among them are:

• Discussions of the, sometimes hidden, implications of such change, and:
• Arguments regarding how such initialization will differ from the current praxis of C++, and:
• Proof of Concepts that directly shows why such proposal is not sane.

N4126: Explicitly defaulted comparison operators -- Oleg Smolsky

By Blog Staff | Aug 4, 2014 09:02 AM | Tags: None

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: N4126

Date: 2014-07-29

Explicitly defaulted comparison operators

by Oleg Smolsky

Excerpt:

N3950 was presented to the Evolution WG at the Rapperswil meeting and the response was very positive. A later revision, N4114 was amended to handle the following points requested at the meeting:

• Support for non-member operators
• Mutable members: there was consensus on their treatment. The compromise is to to make explicitly defaulted operators ill-formed when mutable members are present. See "Mutable members".
• Short-hand notation was proposed and had very positive feedback. See "The proposed syntax: short form".

This proposal makes the following changes after the technical review on the c++std-ext list:

• Pointer, floating point and enumerated type members are included. See "Domain of the operator functions" for the discussion.
• Each explicitly defaulted operator is independent and is bridged to the respective members' operators
• Lexicographical comparison is defined explicitly

N4127: Checked-dereference conditions -- Eelis van der Weegen

By Blog Staff | Jul 23, 2014 10:48 AM | Tags: None

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: N4127

Date: 2014-07-20

Checked-dereference conditions

by Eelis van der Weegen

Excerpt:

This is a proposal to add a new form of condition...

For example,  if (T x : e) s  translates to  if (auto && __p = e) { T x = *__p; s }  for some invisible name __p.

Translation for the new form of condition in a while or for loop is analogous.

The "next generation" version where the type defaults to auto && is also proposed.

N4125: 2014-09 WG21/SG1 Meeting Information -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | Jul 21, 2014 11:42 AM | Tags: None

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: N4125

Date: 2014-07-17

2014-09 WG21/SG1 Meeting Information

by Herb Sutter

Trip Report: C++ Standards Committee Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2014 -- Botond Ballo

By Blog Staff | Jul 21, 2014 11:03 AM | Tags: None

Here's one participant's view of the recent standards meeting with some interesting personal perspective.

Trip Report: C++ Standards Committee Meeting in Rapperswil, June 2014

by Botond Ballo

From the article:

Last [month] I attended another meeting of the ISO C++ Standards Committee in Rapperswil, Switzerland (near Zurich). This is the third Committee meeting I have attended; you can find my reports about the previous two here (September 2013, Chicago) and here (February 2014, Issaquah). These reports, particularly the Issaquah one, provide useful context for this post.

With C++14′s final ballot being still in progress, the focus of this meeting was the various language and library Technical Specifications (TS) that are planned as follow-ups to C++14, and on C++17. ...

Post-Rapperswil mailing available

By Blog Staff | Jul 10, 2014 07:00 PM | Tags: None

The post-Rapperswil mailing of new standards papers is now available.

Many of the papers in the mailing have already been published individually on this blog.

NOTE: The following are only those papers in the mailing that have not already been publicized on this blog.