On Oct 19, 2025, at 3:53 PM, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <std-proposals@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:

On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM Oliver Hunt wrote:

No. If you have a half baked idea, this is not the list for it to be discussed.
We went over this recently, in a thread you were participating in.


Here’s the verbatim text from the official ISO C++ website, on the
page “How To Submit a Proposal” (found at
https://isocpp.org/std/submit-a-proposal):

[begin verbatim copy-paste]
   Float the idea.
   Post an initial brief description of your feature on the
std-proposals mailing list, including especially the problem it solves
and alternatives considered.
[end verbatim copy-paste]

You went to the site, made a copy paste of a subsection of that, that ignored the literal first sentence:

Do you have a concrete idea for a new feature for the C++ standard library?

We have had this discussion before. This is not a list for random half-baked ideas. We had this discussion previously.

Spamming the list with half baked ideas merely wastes the time of others, especially the time of folk on the list who don’t realize that you are intentionally posting half baked ideas instead of concrete proposals.

I myself have spent hours formulating responses to your previous “proposals” because I thought they were actual proposals, not just half baked ideas, and it is incredibly frustrating to know that that was entirely me wasting time for something that was in no way a real proposal.

—Oliver