<style type="text/css">a[data-mtli~="mtli_filesize52129kB"]:after {content:" (521.29 kB)"}</style><style type="text/css">a[data-mtli~="mtli_filesize52129kB"]:after {content:" (521.29 kB)"}</style>{"id":2397,"date":"2017-04-28T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2017-04-28T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T16:00:06","slug":"are-they-really-allowing-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2017\/04\/28\/are-they-really-allowing-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Are they really allowing this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m shopping for some books to update my rusting C++ proficiency coming to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/herbsutter.com\/2016\/06\/30\/trip-report-summer-iso-c-standards-meeting-oulu\/\">Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Oulu) | Sutter\u2019s Mill<\/a><\/em> from the omnipresent <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C%2B%2B\">Wikipedia entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I almost jumped when I read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Two language features that didn\u2019t make it (yet)<\/h2>\n<p>Of the new language features I mentioned last time, only two didn\u2019t make it into C++17:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/open-std.org\/JTC1\/SC22\/WG21\/docs\/papers\/2016\/p0252r0.pdf\" data-mtli=\"mtli_filesize52129kB\"><em>operator.<\/em> (dot)<\/a> <\/strong>to allow smart references (in parallel with smart pointers) and much more. During final core language wording review, the authors discovered a problem that couldn\u2019t be fixed in real time at this meeting, and was pulled back while the authors fix the proposal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gosh, allowing to redefine the dot operator is a mind blowing, bold move. I can barely think about the consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&nbsp; I&#8217;m shopping for some books to update my rusting C++ proficiency coming to Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Oulu) | Sutter\u2019s Mill from the omnipresent Wikipedia entry. I almost jumped when I read this: Two language features that didn\u2019t make it (yet) Of the new language features I mentioned last time, only&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2017\/04\/28\/are-they-really-allowing-this\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-CF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10303,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/03\/12\/modern-c-replacements\/","url_meta":{"origin":2397,"position":0},"title":"Modern C replacements?","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-03-12","format":false,"excerpt":"These days I was just wondering if anyone has compiled a list of \"Modern C replacement\" languages when Slashdot almost read my mind: Meet Zig: the Modern Alternative to the C Programming Language - Slashdot Systems-oriented developers already have programming languages like C, C++, Rust, and Go, notes InfoWorld. 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Let\u2019s see: <>: Template declaration\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Senza categoria&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Senza categoria","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/senza-categoria\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8181,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2023\/03\/12\/replacing-c\/","url_meta":{"origin":2397,"position":2},"title":"Replacing C","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2023-03-12","format":false,"excerpt":"Do We Need a Replacement for C? I found this old draft that cites Zig programming language... time to undraft it... :) C is a widely used language used to program anything from OS kernels to cryptography libraries. Is it time for a replacement? 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