On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> [Ville]
> > It doesn't. The goal isn't to get some functionality as fast as
> > possible, but to get cohesive and correct functionality so that we
> > don't run into
> > a situation where programmers have unfortunate choices to make, and
> > then some need to deal with the support, review, policy and product
> > management consequences of those choices.
>
> 100%.
>
> Furthermore, WG21 voting something into a stack of papers does not
> magically make that thing spontaneously appear in your production compiler
> if said thing is ignored or seen as totally wacky.
>

Ignoring a major new language feature may prove disadvantageous for said
compiler once competing ones start supporting it.

>
> -- Gaby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SG15 <sg15-bounces_at_[hidden]> On Behalf Of Ville Voutilainen
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> Cc: Ville Voutilainen <ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]>; sg21_at_[hidden];
> Joshua Berne <berne_at_[hidden]>; sg15_at_[hidden]; Tom Honermann
> <tom_at_[hidden]>
> Subject: Re: [isocpp-sg15] [isocpp-sg21] P3835 -- Different contract
> checking for different libraries
>
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 at 19:31, Andrei Zissu <andrziss_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > And how does having no contracts at all for at least 3 more years help
> you gain that missing functionality earlier than the current expectation?
>
> It doesn't. The goal isn't to get some functionality as fast as
> possible, but to get cohesive and correct functionality so that we
> don't run into
> a situation where programmers have unfortunate choices to make, and
> then some need to deal with the support, review, policy and product
> management consequences of those choices.
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