@Marco: If you think it hurts to add it to the white-list, then we need to
have a discussion about wiping the entire white-list.

I think having a white-list, and then not adding things makes it even more
confusing.

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Marco Massenzio <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Joris Van Remoortere <[email protected]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > We had an internal discussion about this. White-listing constexpr is fine
> > by us.
> > I think technically the google style guide allows c++11 features that are
> > not explicitly disallowed, but it doesn't hurt to add it to the style
> guide
> > :-)
> >
>
> I actually think that *adding* it to the guide does hurt :)
> (on the other hand, I'm absolutely fine with constexpr)
>
> I really like Google's approach of "if it's not explicitly forbidden, it's
> allowed" as it helps people from having to double-guess whether X is
> allowed or not.
>
> my twocent, anyway
>
> >
> > Joris
> >
> > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Paul Brett <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Despite best efforts to avoid non-POD static variables, we appear to
> > still
> > > have over 80 instances (see MESOS-2780).  We can, of course, use const
> > > inline functions to address these but this will change each constant
> > > reference at the calling site to a constant function reference.
> > >
> > > A more natural approach provided by C++11 is to use constexpr.  I have
> > > submitted for review (https://reviews.apache.org/r/34782/) an example
> to
> > > address the TC handle.
> > >
> > > What are the views on whitelisting constexpr?
> > >
> > > -- Paul Brett
> > >
> >
>

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