From 7424193830827485437 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e0420ef247a8cf1c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.vmunix.org!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: pchapin@sover.net ("Peter C. Chapin") Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Modules for C++? Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:00:57 GMT Organization: Kelsey Mountain Software Lines: 24 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1150686075 29549 158.152.254.254 (19 Jun 2006 03:01:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:01:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.mu.OZ.AU X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id k5J30vVY006068; Mon, 19 Jun 2006 13:00:57 +1000 (EST) X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Spamscanner: mailbox8.ucsd.edu (v1.6 Aug 4 2005 15:27:38, -2.8/5.0 3.0.4) X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 62841 k5J2qsTQ067766 mailbox8.ucsd.edu) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:2417 Hello! I understand that there is an active proposal before the C++ standards committee to add support for first class modules to C++ (document N1964, dated 2006-02-27, "Modules in C++"). I'm wondering if anyone can comment on the status of this proposal. Is this something that is likely to make it into the standard or is it still highly speculative? I'm also interested in the slightly related proposal to add scope control to the preprocessor (document N1614, dated 2004-04-12, "#scope: A simple scoping mechanism for the C/C++ preprocessor"). I understand that the module proposal subsumes the #scope proposal, but the module proposal is much more radical. Also there is room for both proposals in the language (for example if C follows the #scope stuff). Thanks for any insights you can offer. Peter --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]