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If you can't communicate the value of a proposal then you shouldn't be writing proposals. Find an expert and ask them to do it for you.
by chasd00 · Nov 4, 2026
Having just read Stroustrup's paper ( https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2026/p43... ), I'm inclined to agree with…
by rerdavies · Nov 4, 2026
> Microsoft apparently criticised the proposal as unimplementable. We're talking about feedback from the dominant compiler vendor. It's implemented in GCC mainline, it's impleme…
by MFHava · Nov 4, 2026
> Market research industry warns the 2030 Census proposal would make the census harder to answer, less consistent in where it counts people, and less dependable as the benchmark…
by bthallplz · Nov 4, 2026
> I appreciate that ISO/IEC tries to provide some definifion of consensus, but it's so vague that is borderline useless. Is it though? I mean, in what world does the concep…
by locknitpicker · Nov 4, 2026
> 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
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