Ruby 3.0 to have immutable strings by default / C++ heading towards "generic all the time".

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 24-Aug-2015 09:17, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-08-21 23:55, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I don't understand why the C++ committee, in its quest to improve the
>> language, has not pushed forward with proper replacements for typical
>> preprocessor uses, with the intent of eventually deprecating it entirely.
>
> With modules being already implemented in Clang, is there a legitimate
> use case for the preprocessor left?
>

Code generation and crude meta-programming.

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Dmitry Olshansky