"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:d56h15$2g7$1@sea.gmane.org... | | "Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote in message | news:001901c54d99$2d738e50$6401a8c0@pdimov2... | > Iain K. Hanson wrote: | >> I can not see why this has even come up for formal review. If this is | >> auseful feature then surely it should be taken up as a core language | >> feature. | > | > Proposed core language features always stand a better chance when a proof | > of concept is available. "Look at what monstrocity we had to build in | > order to get the feature we want" is sometimes a very good argument. :-) | | That was one of the most effective argument for adding static_assert to the | language, IMO. | | static_assert was voted into the language by the full committee last month | in Lillehammer. with the exception that Denmark voted against it :-) Anyway, the parallel is good. -Thorsten