Stroustrup's talk on C++0x

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> C++0x's new features are essentially all present in D 1.0.
>>
>> ..but C++98's features that were missing from D are still missing 
>> (both good and bad ones).
> 
> Like what? Virtual base classes? Argument dependent lookup? #include 
> files? C++ can keep them <g>.

The things that have me banging my head most often are
1) the few things preventing an implementation of smart pointers 
[destructors, copy constructors and opDot].  There are some cases where 
you just want to refcount objects.  This is the one hole in D that I 
haven't heard any reasonable workaround for.  I don't necessarily _want_ 
copy constructors in general but they seem to be necessary for 
implementing automatic reference counting.
2) lack of a way to return a reference.
3) From what I can tell "const ref" doesn't work for parameters in D 
2.0. Oh, and
4) real struct constructors.  Just a syntactic annoyance, but still an 
annoyance.

--bb