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Re: The future of concepts
Ed Smith-Rowland wrote:
James Dennett wrote:
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Piotr
Wyderski<piotr.wyderski@gmail.com> wrote:
Concepts have recently been removed from the C++0x Standard Draft.
Will the concepts branch be discontinued?
I hope not. Concepts will be "finished" and re-added to C++, and it
would be immensely helpful in that effort if there were a version of
g++ with stronger Concepts support than ConceptGCC had.
-- James
We need a gcc branch for concepts. One of the major complaints on
concepts and one of the major contributors to its being dropped is that
there is no implementation experience.
It could perhaps be not a branch, but a plugin, but I know not much
about C++ concepts, and absolutely nothing about the existing C++
concepts branch[es].
My belief is that making such code a plugin and not a branch would make
both the plugin feature and the experimental language feature (concepts)
more popular. And perhaps maintaining a plugin could mean less work than
maintaing an entire branch.
Regards.
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