"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:hnh30m$1fv...@digitalmars.com... > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Executive summary: C++0x will in all likelihood be C++11, export finally >> gets the axe (thank God), > > Yay! >
I had to look up what export templates were. It *seemed* like a good thing, but judging by these reactions it sounds like there was some sort of critical flaw with them? >> exception specifications get deprecated, > > Yay! > I'm not real familiar with those, but it sounds like it was simply a C++ version of Java'a checked exceptions? If so, I'm surprised they had even been considering them. >> noexcept gets added... well pretty much what D does :o). > > I predict that C++ will adopt a lot more of D stuff. I predict that it still won't be nearly enough to make C++ nice to deal with compared to D ;)