Beman Dawes 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-/STLCCS... 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.
It also means a lot of work for Boost.Config maintainers. We'll now have a variety of C++ compilers each with a different subset of C++11 implemented. With C++ being released with featuers added piecemeal AND aspirations for some sort of "next" version of something in 2014 this will be the new reality. Fasten your seatbelts - we're in for a bumpy ride. One thing I didn't get a chance to ask - who picks the board of directors of the new ISOCPP foundation? Robert Ramey