Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 21:13:01 -0700
On Wednesday, 20 May 2026 12:45:01 Pacific Daylight Time Jonathan Wakely via
Std-Proposals wrote:
> It's been clear for years that he has no intention of doing anything except
> wasting this list's time, and people are too tolerant of it IMHO.
That doesn't mean all ideas are meritless. So other people can look at the
half-baked proposal and come up with their own motivations and use-cases
(which may end up bearing no relationship to what was the original intent) and
take the proposal further.
In this particular case, I think there's an extremely weak but non-zero
motivation. There is one function in the standard library that would use it:
std::declval. But the problem is already solved for that one, so the solution
is available for other functions like it.
Std-Proposals wrote:
> It's been clear for years that he has no intention of doing anything except
> wasting this list's time, and people are too tolerant of it IMHO.
That doesn't mean all ideas are meritless. So other people can look at the
half-baked proposal and come up with their own motivations and use-cases
(which may end up bearing no relationship to what was the original intent) and
take the proposal further.
In this particular case, I think there's an extremely weak but non-zero
motivation. There is one function in the standard library that would use it:
std::declval. But the problem is already solved for that one, so the solution
is available for other functions like it.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel Data Center - Platform & Sys. Eng.
Received on 2026-05-21 04:13:10