On Apr 13, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Andy Little wrote:
A major reason given by the committee AFAICS (in GUI case) was that the committee doesnt have enough time to deal with it.
This is not exactly correct. The committee does not have enough time to *design* a GUI library, nor any other library. Besides, you wouldn't want a library designed by committee, would you? If someone steps up with a proposal for a GUI library, the committee will review it.
Yet there seems to be adequate time to discuss the addition of more complexities to the language itself.
These are different groups within the C++ committee. Libraries are handled by the Library Working Group, language extensions are handled by the Evolution Working Group. Discussing language extensions rarely takes away time from the discussion of new/improved libraries, except where language changes can have a large effect on how libraries are written (e.g., concepts and move semantics). Doug