Hi everybody,

I finally managed to write down a draft for a proposal:

https://pdigiglio.github.io/papers/tuple_protocol_for_c_style_arrays/draft0.html

I'd really like to have a feedback from you.

I left a "Questions" section, which I'll remove in later versions, with
a remainder of things I couldn't figure out myself. I hope somebody here
can help me out with those. Basically, the questions are:

 * volatile specializations for tuple_size and tuple_element have been
 deprecated since C++20 (and they're not mentioned in N4910).
   - Why were they deprecated?
   - Removing them from the standard wouldn't be a breaking change?
   - Should I propose specialization for volatile-qualified C-style
     arrays? (My guess is: no).

 * Why is fixed-extent std::span not tuple like? Should I reach for Tim
 Song (author of P2116) to know the answer?

Thanks in advance.

Best,
Paolo

Il giorno ven 11 mar 2022 alle ore 19:10 Zhihao Yuan via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> ha scritto:

> On Friday, March 11th, 2022 at 4:23 AM, Giuseppe D'Angelo via
> Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> >
>
> > [...] I was just wondering if, historically, breaking
> > semantics w.r.t. plain arrays (and aligning on existing containers
> > instead) has always been a design choice or it "just happened" because
> > of multiple papers in flight at the same time.
> >
>
> > * array was added to TR1 in ~2003 (N1548, N1475)
> > * then got merged into the draft in ~2006 (N2003)
> > * ref qualifiers on *this was proposed in ~2005 (N1821)
> >
>
>
> I think you can still change it.
> Paper is welcome.
>
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