On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:

* Microsoft has released an out-of-band community technical preview
(CTP) for their compiler, adding explicit conversion operators, raw
string literals, function template default arguments, delegating
constructors, uniform initialization, and variatic templates. (See
http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Core-C-/STLCCSeries6
for instructions on how to use the CTP). Microsoft is promising more
such feature releases during the first half of 2013. This is important
for the whole C++ community, since it means that full C++11 support is
becoming a reality across all widely used compilers.

Herb (and STL) notes in the video that it is important to understand two things about it:

1. it's a preview, which means it's not supposed to be used in production

2. it's only a compiler update, which means the STL is not updated accordingly (the example being std::vector v ={ 1, 2 , 3 , 4}; not working yet)

Joel Lamotte