C++0x news

[Jonathan M Davis]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> news:hnh30m$1fv8$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Executive summary: C++0x will in all likelihood be C++11, export finally
>>> gets the axe (thank God),
>>
>> Yay!
>>
> 
> I had to look up what export templates were. It *seemed* like a good
> thing, but judging by these reactions it sounds like there was some sort
> of critical flaw with them?
> 

Herb Sutter did a great article on it:

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184401563
http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184401584

Basically what it comes down to is that they don't really work and that 
trying to make them work breaks things. On top of that, they're really hard 
to implement, and I believe that only one group has done it (and as 
Bearophile pointed out, it took them long to implement template exports than 
it did for them to implement the entire java specification).

- Jonathan M Davis