C++ launched its community survey, too

Patrick Schluter Patrick.Schluter at bbox.fr
Wed Feb 28 11:08:57 UTC 2018


On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 21:07:03 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:33:18PM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via 
> Digitalmars-d wrote: [...]
>> [...]
>
> Not strictly true.  My old C++98 project no longer compiled 
> with the latest g++, because it contained things allowed in 
> C++98 that are no longer allowed in C++17.  Some things were 
> relatively simple to fix, but others were quite painful to fix, 
> so I ended up using --std=c++11 as a workaround instead.  In 
> the frustrating process of trying to fix things C++17 complains 
> about, I threw in the towel and decided to rewrite it in D 
> instead.
>
> [...]
The fun with C++
the same expression means completely different things in C++98 
and C++11

     fon< fun< 1 >>::three >::two >::one

and there's no context change, it's parsing rules that changed.

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/right-angle-brackets-shifting-semantics




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