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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end
- Subject: Re: Back from Toronto
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.173016.17693@mole-end>
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Jul18.083446.9363@mole-end> <1992Jul19.144507.10140@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 17:30:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul19.144507.10140@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, maxtal@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (John MAX Skaller) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul18.083446.9363@mole-end> mat@mole-end writes:
- > >I've just returned from the Toronto meeting of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee,
- > >on which I am a paid-up Observer member. It was an instructive time, to
- > >say the least.
- >
- >
- > Thanks for your report on the meeting. (appertiser)
- >
- > Now could I impose on you to tell us a little more,
- > in your own good time of course, about what was actually
- > under consideration? (main course please, we're all banging
- > our cutlery :-)
-
- Well, I spend my time with the Extensions WG, so there's a lot I didn't
- see.
-
- Let me explain a little bit. The WGs are expected to report their
- activities in brief to the committee(s) as a whole. But if they are not
- ready to recommend a proposal to the committee(s) as a whole, the
- report may just be an item on a list, or it may be a brief description
- with the request for a straw vote to `get the sense of the committee.'
-
- So most of what I saw related to the Extensions WG. After prioritizing
- the list, we spent most of our time on (a) removing array allocation from
- the global operators new and delete, (b) looking at ramifications of ~const
- (a proposal which the WG likes a lot, but in a much-slimmed-down version),
- and (c) working out the ramifications IN THE USE of type conversions in
- the presence of runtime-checked conversions.
-
- Each of these led down all sorts of interesting paths. Each stands a
- fair chance of producing a language improvement; (c) may result in a
- major improvement.
-
- Could these three topics really have taken two days in meetings? Yes.
- Around the table were compiler writers from at least three companies,
- and representatives of users, of the NCEG, and of the object-extended SQL
- communities, as well as Bjarne Stroustrup and an assortment of `cats
- and dogs' (including m'self).
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- uunet!mole-end!mat, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-