No, please consult the example I gave upthread. Macros could be used, but they are not in general sufficiently fine-grained and must be looked up case by case.


> On 21 Mar 2025, at 09:21, Robin Savonen Söderholm via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> So you essentially want it to work like an "implicit feature testing"? Feature testing macros are generally designed for this, together with constraints.
> While I understand that this would be 'easier to write' your own 'work arounds' (or more like back ports), this sort of thing would risk giving very suprising results. And I am honestly not sure you can get it to work like you describe...
>
> // Robin
>
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 09:14 Hans Åberg via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>
> > On 21 Mar 2025, at 00:15, Thiago Macieira <thiago_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, 20 March 2025 14:39:22 Pacific Daylight Time Hans Åberg wrote:
> >>> The most common use will not the in the Standard Library. Please design it
> >>> with the most common use-case in mind.
> >>
> >> The intended design is for use in the standard library.
> >
> > I don't think so. I don't see the point of this in the Standard Library.
>
> It is for compiler writers who put in options for language versions without full support.
>
> This is what the example I gave is about.
>
> >>> And fixing [[unimplemented]] is still work. If the original party adds the
> >>> function, now we have two definitions and the linking may fail (ODR
> >>> violations are IFNDR) - it will fail if linking statically.
> >>
> >> There is no work needed; the workaround implementation will be not called,
> >> and its single occurrence can be removed at some point.
> >
> > It will fail to link. Therefore, it requires work.
>
> The very point is to make is to be able to make a workaround that is automatically disabled when the genuine version arrives
>
> >
> >> So forget about the issue, or make your own solution, because this is the
> >> only I could find.
> >
> > To what problem? It isn't clear what you're trying to solve in the first place.
>
> I can only refer you to the earlier posts in this thread.
>
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