On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Loïc Joly wrote:
Doug Gregor a écrit :
A project idea: "porting" Boost to C++0x, providing alternative (= better, simpler, faster, etc) implementations of core Boost libraries by making use of C++0x features like variadic templates, rvalue references, and decltype.
I think it would be a wonderful idea, but do you think that the language itself, and the available compilers, are stable enough to allow for such an operation now ?
GCC 4.3 should be released in a few weeks, with decent support for those features. So, I think we can get started exercising those features in Boost, both to help squish the bugs in GCC and to entice other compiler vendors to start supporting these features.
Is that why you omit concepts in your feature list ?
Yes. ConceptGCC is buggy enough to prevent serious implementations of Boost at this time, and I'm most interested in getting the best use out of the C++0x features we have in released (or soon-to-be-released) compilers. - Doug