Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:58:00 +0300
On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 at 01:31, Andrey Semashev via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I realize that the Standard Committee resources are limited, but I also
> don't find this argument convincing. You could argue the same way e.g.
> about coroutines or any other niche feature of the language, which was
> arguably more expensive to standardize and implement, yet here we are.
I don't quite follow this analogy. I can't just write something else
instead of coroutines, whereas
for generic code, I can just decide not to do conditional noexcepts,
and I will actually lose very little
when doing that.
> Note that it's not just the standard library itself that could benefit
> from having this feature. The standard library is an indication of a
> missing feature that would be widely useful.
I question that "widely useful" part.
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I realize that the Standard Committee resources are limited, but I also
> don't find this argument convincing. You could argue the same way e.g.
> about coroutines or any other niche feature of the language, which was
> arguably more expensive to standardize and implement, yet here we are.
I don't quite follow this analogy. I can't just write something else
instead of coroutines, whereas
for generic code, I can just decide not to do conditional noexcepts,
and I will actually lose very little
when doing that.
> Note that it's not just the standard library itself that could benefit
> from having this feature. The standard library is an indication of a
> missing feature that would be widely useful.
I question that "widely useful" part.
Received on 2025-06-09 22:58:24