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steveklabniklast Tuesday at 5:55 PM1 replyview on HN

> Safe C++ will probably be too unpopular to make it into the spec.

Not just that, but the committee accepted a paper that basically says it's design is against C++'s design principles, so it's effectively dead forever.


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tialaramexlast Tuesday at 7:03 PM

This was adopted as standing document SD-10 https://isocpp.org/std/standing-documents/sd-10-language-evo...

Here's somebody who was in the room explaining how this was agreed as standing policy for the C++ programming language.

"It was literally the last paper. Seen at the last hour. Of a really long week. Most everyone was elsewhere in other working group meetings assuming no meaningful work was going to happen."