Re: Interesting talk about language design and evolution

2016-09-24 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 18:11:25 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 03:39:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: A somewhat lengthy but very interesting talk about the tradeoffs for language design and evolution. [CppCon 2016: Bjarne Stroustrup "The Evolution of C++

Re: Interesting talk about language design and evolution

2016-09-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 09/24/2016 02:11 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: Relevant is this list of C++17 features (many of which already work in popular compilers). http://stackoverflow.com/a/38060437/216300 I've got to admit, the D side of me is jealous of a few things on this list. Structured bindings, init ifs (one of

Re: Interesting talk about language design and evolution

2016-09-24 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 9/24/2016 11:11 AM, Brad Anderson wrote: Relevant is this list of C++17 features http://stackoverflow.com/a/38060437/216300 Finally has hex floating point literals! > (many of which already work in popular > compilers). Digital Mars C++ has had hex floating point literals since about

Re: Interesting talk about language design and evolution

2016-09-24 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 03:39:00 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: A somewhat lengthy but very interesting talk about the tradeoffs for language design and evolution. [CppCon 2016: Bjarne Stroustrup "The Evolution of C++ Past, Present and

Interesting talk about language design and evolution

2016-09-23 Thread Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d
A somewhat lengthy but very interesting talk about the tradeoffs for language design and evolution. [CppCon 2016: Bjarne Stroustrup "The Evolution of C++ Past, Present and Future"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wzc7a3McOs) In particular the part about direction