C++ front end volunteer wanted!

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@integrable-solutions.net
Wed Jun 4 23:16:00 GMT 2003


Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| 
| >Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> writes:
| >
| >| However, due to a C++ front end bug (c++/11094, see also
| >
| >Nathan Myers raised this issue on the Core Working Group reflector,
| >and the issue is still under debate.  However, the trend seems to be
| >to make the program construct ill-formed (at least that is John Spicer
| >opinion).  See thread starting at reflector message c++std-core-9860.
| >
| Ah! This comes as a big surprise to me! Of course I posted the message
| only because I believed there was consensus that this was a bug. Sorry!

No need to sorry:  We had a debate here.  But then, Nathan also raised
the issue on the committee reflector (which is a good thing!), but
there there seems to be a different sentiment.  It is just about two
sets of people having different opinions on what should happen.

-- Gaby



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