[OT] Modules dropped out of C++17

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On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 06:54:39 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> On 08/06/15 22:24, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> "Unified call syntax. This proposal, by Bjarne, seeks to unify 
>> the
>> member (x.f(y)) and non-member (f(x, y)) call syntaxes by 
>> allowing
>> functions of either kind to be invoked by syntax of either 
>> kind."
> Dear god, I hope this doesn't pass.

I agree, I have conventions in my C++ code where member functions 
and free functions shouldn't mix.

But given C++ templates lack of type safety, I'm not surprised 
that BS pushes it.  It also does not solve "std::begin" issues 
better than a method-extension feature would have done.