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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>, GCC <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: wwwdocs: cxx-reflection/index.html Standardeze
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 10:11:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdSavrS8Wi7kscvLz_MH4MKy3zhv8Czt1Wae3Jf7jRBKFQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+=Sn1mvSHfb_FbJXn_2OSayJc0Ue9xg+qL9M1ScB2WsKii6VQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 3 Dec 2023, 02:18 Andrew Pinski via Gcc, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 5:40 PM Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> >
> > I held of making a patch to change this (to remove it), does Standardeze
> mean something:
> >
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-reflection/index.html
>
> It means written in the same form as the language that is the C++
> standard.  It is a term which is used to describe that the language
> that the C++ standard uses sometimes can be hard to read due to the
> terms used which is not how C++ developers know them as.
>

Literally, the language of the standard. Like legalese:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/legalese



> The project and C++ has moved on from the time it was being developed
> even. concepts in C++20 seems like the evolution of that work even.
>

Things have moved as far as actual reflection in the language being
proposed for C++26:
https://wg21.link/p2996r0

  reply	other threads:[~2023-12-03 10:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-03  0:36 Jonny Grant
2023-12-03  2:16 ` Andrew Pinski
2023-12-03 10:11   ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2023-12-03 11:53     ` Jonny Grant

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