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Re: Weird tweet about C++20

From: Yongwei Wu <wuyongwei_at_[hidden]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 22:24:43 +0800
On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 22:03, Ville Voutilainen
<ville.voutilainen_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 at 16:43, Yongwei Wu via Std-Discussion
> <std-discussion_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> * link to the garbage twitter feed omitted *
>
> > Which says:
> >
> >> The C++ committee just approved C++20
> >
> >
> > Is it a bad joke about what is proceeding in the plenary meeting, or is there really something significant going on?
>
> It's a bad joke, yes. The committee approved some bug fixes to Ranges
> and std::format, and the committee is making
> a recommendation for implementation vendors not to ship a
> C++20-by-the-letter versions of some facilities, but
> instead ship the fixed ones, which are incompatible in certain ways.
>
> If you want reports of what happened in the latest committee meeting,
> wait for an update to appear
> on https://herbsutter.com/ and ignore that twitter feed. If you must
> get updates via twitter,
> consider following https://twitter.com/herbsutter instead.

Thank you. I was actually quite angry about the tweet. However, since
I did not know what was going on, I would like to hear some official
words from people like you.

Best regards,

Yongwei

Received on 2021-06-08 09:24:57