Hi everyone! The next meeting of the C++ Standards Committee will be February 29 - March 5 in Jacksonville, Florida.
I've blogged in detail about the last meeting here [1]. A significant amount of progress has been made since then, both in the form of updates to existing proposals, and in the form of new proposals; see [2] and [3] for a list of new papers submitted to the committee since the last meeting. The most notable of these new papers, in my opinion, is P0273R0 [4], which is the first paper about Modules that's written by Clang developers. In the paper, the authors propose a set of changes to Microsoft's Modules proposal motivated by Clang implementation experience. This paper allows us to quantify, for the first time, the amount of implementation convergence that has been achieved by the Microsoft and Clang implementations, and get a feel for what sorts of differences remain to be bridged. As I've mentioned in my blog posts, a number of big-ticket items are coming to C++ in the near future: concepts, modules, coroutines, ranges, and contracts, among others. I believe it will be at this upcoming meeting that a lot of the decisions about which of these will make C++17 will be made. I will be attending this meeting, as usual hanging out in the Evolution Working Group (where new language features are discussed at the design level). As always, if there's anything you'd like me to find out for you at the meeting, or any feedback you'd like me to communicate, please let me know! Finally, I encourage you to reach out to me if you're thinking of submitting a proposal to the committee. I'm always happy to help with formulating and, if necessary, presenting a proposal. Cheers, Botond [1] https://botondballo.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/trip-report-c-standards-meeting-in-kona-october-2015/ [2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/#mailing2015-11 [3] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/#mailing2016-02 [4] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2016/p0273r0.pdf _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
