I'm blocked, help me!

Stefan Koch uplink.coder at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 9 11:27:15 UTC 2019


On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 at 10:01:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/9/2019 12:45 AM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> Much like for the os, it's not reasonable to expect the 
>> minimum supported c++ compiler to be a c++17.  It _might_ be 
>> reasonable to expect c++11/14, but someone would have to 
>> survey what's actually there to be sure.  Regardless, 
>> conditionalizing the support is a more usable longer term 
>> solution.  Exactly how to do that within the existing test 
>> suites, I can't answer that since I haven't touched it in a 
>> few years and really don't know the state of the art for them.
>
> If the c++17 compiler has switches that revert it to older 
> behaviors, that might be reasonable.

It might be a good choice for D to support such things.


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