C++0x news

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hnh30m$1fv8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Executive summary: C++0x will in all likelihood be C++11, export finally 
>> gets the axe (thank God),
>
> Yay!
>

I had to look up what export templates were. It *seemed* like a good thing, 
but judging by these reactions it sounds like there was some sort of 
critical flaw with them?

>> exception specifications get deprecated,
>
> Yay!
>

I'm not real familiar with those, but it sounds like it was simply a C++ 
version of Java'a checked exceptions? If so, I'm surprised they had even 
been considering them.

>> noexcept gets added... well pretty much what D does :o).
>
> I predict that C++ will adopt a lot more of D stuff.

I predict that it still won't be nearly enough to make C++ nice to deal with 
compared to D ;)