Why “committee” is being discussed
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> Contracts were never in C++23 Why yes, because the C++20 was so poorly thought through that in the July 2019 WG21 meeting the design was deemed irremediably broken, and conseq…
by locknitpicker · Nov 4, 2026
> The other way to look at this is that the standards committee was correct in rejecting this proposal because it added too much complexity without sufficient benefit. If so, ha…
by swiftcoder · Nov 4, 2026
As somewhat of an outsider, the C++ spec process seems really strange to me. It’s weird that major features are designed from start to finish without even having so much as a de…
by materielle · Nov 4, 2026
(The Committee approved contracts as part of the C++26 DIS (Draft International Standard); it was the NBs (National Bodies) that didn’t. Because the Committee is made of NB repr…
by Sharlin · Nov 4, 2026
I find it amusing that of all of the half-assed features in the standards, it's contracts that causes the vote to fail. I've seen firsthand how the standards committee just fund…
by jcranmer · Nov 4, 2026
The original idea for C++ contracts was to implement something like Microsoft SAL notation (sometime in 2014) to enable full static analysis and that is what i was hoping for. S…
by rramadass · Nov 4, 2026
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A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the whole assembly or organization were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of organization and its needs. Read more on Wikipedia