DR handling for C++

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:

[...]

| The fact is that the C++ committee uses DRs in several different ways.
| In some cases it's "the standard calls for something that's
| unimplementable or inconsistent, so here's a bug fix", and in other
| cases it's "we think the standard called for something that's not a
| good idea, so here's a better redesign."

[...]

| There are some committee issues that ought to be implemented, because
| there are some cases where the standard really is unimplementable,
| vague, meaningless, or contradictory.  But at this point there is only
| only official C++ standard, and where that standard is clear and
| consistent our users have a right to expect that we'll follow it.

well, isn't the last sentence in contradiction with the first paragraph? :-)

I believe C++98 + TC1, aka C++03 is a good thresold.  Anything
else should fall under -std=c++0x or -std=c++-experimental.

-- Gaby