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posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the (C++)++ dept.

Herb Sutter reports that the ballot closed on Friday.

From the announcement:

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."

https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/08/we-have-cpp14

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 19 2014, @04:04PM (#83140)

    Actually I don't understand why so many people have an aversion to templates. I mean, the template syntax in C++ is ugly, yes, but that's just a cosmetic problem. And from the little I've seen from D, its template syntax seems not to be bad.

    Especially if you only use templates, rather than writing them, most of the time the only thing you notice is those angle brackets in the type name. For functions, you normally don't even have that; you just write min(a,b) and don't care whether min is a template or not. Except that as template, it automagically works with your own classes as long as they define a less-than operator.

    Yes, you can also do mighty complicated stuff with templates. But nobody forces you to do it. Just like nobody forces you to do mighty complicated stuff with functions.