On Jul 2, 2025, at 8:25 PM, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, 2 July 2025 17:15:08 Pacific Daylight Time Radu Ungureanu via
> Std-Proposals wrote:
>> This feature would be /opt-in/, in it's own namespace (not as global
>> identifiers, unless explicitly doing a "using namespace") and would not
>> be new keywords into the language.
>
> Is it then worth standardising? Anyone can write the 8 lines of "using"
> statements.

+1

I think we should be standardizing things that make the impossible possible, or perhaps the difficult easy. Making the easy easier has a much smaller benefit/cost ratio.

Data point: https://github.com/HowardHinnant/bbi/blob/master/bbi.h#L3045-L3064

Wasn’t hard.

Howard