From 1612926032304498184 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ab08a3e89d74b8d7 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-16 13:54:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Core Language Active Issue #329 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:53:08 GMT Organization: KBC Financial Products Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3CE4174C.5090209@mail.com> References: <3CD19D55.1050804@mail.com> <3CD6A00D.2080502@mail.com> <3CD99A77.2040301@mail.com> <3CE005FD.6070400@mail.com> <3CE2C734.4030703@mail.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1021582396 mail2news:28848 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@mosquito.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 18 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:11317 Garry Lancaster wrote: > On the contrary, since the current standard-mandated > behaviour is scarce in reality, this gives a lot more > freedom to change the standard without affecting > real existing code. But compiler implementations change much more quickly than compiler standards. Furthermore, libraries are now being written that depend upon the most subtle nuances of the C++ standard in order to do template metaprogramming. I still don't see any reason for changing the rule. --- [ 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.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]