From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
To: Matt Austern <austern@apple.com>
Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>,
Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: DR handling for C++
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31xgwwsly.fsf@merlin.cs.tamu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <461F70B0-0B49-11D9-ADB7-000A95AA5E5E@apple.com>
Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
[...]
| The fact is that the C++ committee uses DRs in several different ways.
| In some cases it's "the standard calls for something that's
| unimplementable or inconsistent, so here's a bug fix", and in other
| cases it's "we think the standard called for something that's not a
| good idea, so here's a better redesign."
[...]
| There are some committee issues that ought to be implemented, because
| there are some cases where the standard really is unimplementable,
| vague, meaningless, or contradictory. But at this point there is only
| only official C++ standard, and where that standard is clear and
| consistent our users have a right to expect that we'll follow it.
well, isn't the last sentence in contradiction with the first paragraph? :-)
I believe C++98 + TC1, aka C++03 is a good thresold. Anything
else should fall under -std=c++0x or -std=c++-experimental.
-- Gaby
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-20 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-20 20:44 Mark Mitchell
2004-09-20 20:47 ` Dale Johannesen
2004-09-20 20:55 ` Andrew Pinski
2004-09-20 21:26 ` Dale Johannesen
2004-09-20 21:00 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-20 21:04 ` Matt Austern
2004-09-20 21:08 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-20 21:36 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-09-20 23:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-09-21 8:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2004-09-21 8:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2004-09-21 12:39 ` Joseph S. Myers
2004-09-20 20:54 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-09-20 21:01 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-20 21:07 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2004-09-20 21:14 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-20 21:41 ` Matt Austern
2004-09-20 22:32 ` Gabriel Dos Reis [this message]
2004-09-20 22:59 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-09-20 23:12 ` Matt Austern
2004-09-20 23:16 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-10-18 9:19 ` Jason Merrill
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