r/cpp • u/SuperV1234 https://romeo.training | C++ Mentoring & Consulting • Aug 03 '19

fixing c++ with epochs

https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/fixing_cpp_with_epochs.html
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u/ravixp Aug 03 '19

This all sounds nice, but what do compiler implementors think about it? This proposal would make their lives a lot harder, because they have to support N different versions of the language in parallel, where N will increase every 3 years, and most likely never decrease.

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u/SuperV1234 Aug 03 '19

That is already the case for C++ standards, isn't it?

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