C++17 is feature complete

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 27 08:59:30 PDT 2016


On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 15:54:16 UTC, luminousone wrote:
> C++ has post pended vtable pointers on class objects, its 
> unlikely good reflection can ever be added to the language, as 
> the vtable may be in a different place in every object their is 
> no way to access it universally for object type information. 
> Some Compile time type reflection might be possible, But I bet 
> it ends up being flimsy.

Huh? IIRC it is implementation defined in C++. There are C++ 
compilers/tools that provide more extensive reflection, but it is 
not part of the standard beyond simple typeid reflection.



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