[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 8 15:22:53 PDT 2015


On 6/8/15 1:25 PM, ponce wrote:
> C++'s constexpr looks broken because everything must be marked
> constexpre, which defeats the purpose of having compile-time code
> looking like runtime code. But I never had the pleasure to use it.

Yeah, it's sadly quite björked. Scott Meyers and I looked at the feature 
and the logical conclusion for a guideline was "Speculatively mark 
everything in sight as constexpr". That doesn't quite scale. -- Andrei


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