C++0x Concepts - Dead?
Robert Fraser
fraserofthenight at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 16:40:44 PDT 2009
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Andrei
>> Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jarrett
>>>> Billingsley<jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Walter
>>>>> Bright<newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>>>> There are unconfirmed reports that this morning, the C++0x standards
>>>>>> group
>>>>>> in Frankfurt voted to kill Concepts.
>>>>> Oh, wow.
>>>> I mean, really, I'm kind of speechless.
>>>>
>>>> I thought they were supposed to be one of the killer features.
>>> You were at the wrong tense: -ing, not -er. :o)
>>
>> Ahaha, good one :)
>>
>> Yeah, what's the solution to a complex, incomprehensible language?
>> More complexity!
>
> Speaking of which, I think D has reached the perfect shade with
> restricted templates. That is, after Walter fixes the related bugs...
>
> Andrei
... And gets rid of SFNAE... Seriously, with restricted templates,
template specializations, static if, etc., SFNAE is about as bug-prone a
"feature" as we have in the language.
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