alt Hacker NewsA more charitable interpretation is something like royal assent for laws. Yes, the king/queen can always just choose to delay it or even block the law, but that'd be unprecedented and the whole system of parliamentary monarchy would be in a serious crisis.
I think the author is trying to get at like, the actual discussion happens earlier / on the WG21 level, and the ISO vote is treated more of a rubberstamp. And that has changed in this instance.
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bigstrat2003 • today at 7:00 AM
Personally, I think that if a system to veto something exists, it shouldn't be considered shocking or a betrayal of it gets exercised. Otherwise why have the system?
> but that'd be unprecedented
Not really. The unprecedented part was how come contracts proponents decided to push a proposal against all feedback and concerns, knowing very well it was falling to build up any form of consensus.
Contracts proponents knew for years the featured proposal was opposed as it was riddled with fundamental technical flaws. The unprecedented part was the way they said "screw them" and pushed forth anyway, hoping the formality would build enough pressure to force anyone opposing the feature to succumb to the bureaucratic pressure and silence their concerns.
This contracts stunt reeks of corporate chicanery. I mean, what was the plan here? Ignore everyone, get the bureaucratic foot in the door, and then blackmail all dissenting voices of sabotaging the process if contracts proponents didn't had their way?