On Aug 25, 2025, at 4:38 PM, Ted Lyngmo <ted@lyncon.se> wrote:

*If* I go ahead and write a proposal for this, should I make it only about these freestanding function templates or should I go for the unique_multilock (for lack of a better name) in the same paper? I'm guessing it's easier to get approval the more specific it is, so the unique_multilock should be saved for later, right?

I think either approach could work. You never know with the committee. My personal success rate when I was at the top of my game was only about 50%.

I recommend that you drop “freestanding” from all of your descriptions going forward as that word means something else in the C++ standard. “Namespace-scope” is probably a better term for what you mean.

Howard