dmd and C++11

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2012/1/2 Sean Cavanaugh <WorksOnMyMachine at gmail.com>

> On 12/29/2011 10:16 AM, Trass3r wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 16:00:47 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, 29 December 2011 at 15:58:55 UTC, Trass3r wrote:
>>>
>>>> What's the stance on using C++11 features in the dmd source code in
>>>> the future?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, how many C++11 features does DMC support?
>>>
>>
>> *sigh*
>> Totally forgot about that. Can't we finally get rid of that crappy
>> toolchain :'(
>> btw, wasn't there a patch to make dmd compile with VisualStudio cl?
>>
>
> Visual Studio support of C++11 is pretty weak (or maybe more accurately
> 'spotty') in VS2010, and this will be virtually unchanged in the next
> version.  On the plus side what is there (rvalue references, auto) is nice
> to have.  On the downside what is missing is really sad (varaidic
> templates, range for, the full set of C++11 type traits, the new unicode
> string types and literals, initializer lists, and a few others I can't
> remember easily)
>
> One of the reasons I've switched to g++ lately. As for D - it already
natively supports many C++11 features(or vise-versa), but I wonder if the
user-defined literals will ever make into it.
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