On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 11:04 PM connor horman via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:


On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 22:46 Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:
On Friday, 8 May 2020 18:02:59 PDT connor horman via Std-Proposals wrote:

> Having the ability to spin forever, without wasting time actually doing
> stuff, seems like a reasonable thing to have in low-level code

Yes, in low-level code. Assembly.
"There is no lower-level language" was one of my main points, and a core design principle of C++ if I remember correctly,p.


You are actually misremembering.  The quote is "leave no room for a lower-level language *besides assembly*".

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Tony