C++17 is feature complete

luminousone via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 27 09:03:44 PDT 2016


On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 15:59:30 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> 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.

C++ post pended vtable pointers, Are not implementation dependent.


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