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Re: [wg14/wg21 liaison] [isocpp-ext] P2128, multi-dimensional subscript operator

From: Corentin <corentin.jabot_at_[hidden]>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 11:57:17 +0200
On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 11:22 AM Ville Voutilainen via Ext <
ext_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> See http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2021/p2128r6.pdf
>
> Did we ever discuss this in a liaison group meeting?
>
> While the paper is not proposing to add multi-dimensional subscripting
> for raw arrays, it is doing a land grab on what that syntax means.
> I got the impression that some WG14 members have different ideas
> for that sort of a syntax, based on earlier email discussions.
>

As far as I understand, the concerns were about comma expressions,
and that ship has sailed with the depreciation in 20.
I suppose C might want to talk about doing something similar there, as that
did
technically include an incompatibility.

To my knowledge, none of the authors has been reached about further C
compatibility concerns.
And as you are pointing out, this proposal does not affect C arrays.



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Received on 2021-10-04 04:57:31