[boost] [C++0x] C++0x FDIS ships!

Subject: [boost] [C++0x] C++0x FDIS ships!
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-27 09:50:35

On Friday In Madrid, Spain, the ISO C++ committee approved the Final
Draft International Standard (FDIS) for C++0x.

So C++0x is now complete in a technical sense. There is no possibility
for further technical change. It will be a few weeks before the actual
FDIS document is available.

The ISO formal voting process will take until August or later. It's an
up or down, yes or no, vote.  All the countries actively participating
voted yes for shipping the FDIS, so this ISO vote is mostly a
formality.

Most of the changes approved in Madrid were minor wording changes
fixing mistakes in specification. Proposals to remove several features
on the grounds they haven't been implemented or tested were rejected,
usually by overwhelming vote margins.  For example, the
range-based-for-loop problem that surfaced on the Boost list caused a
tweak in name lookup wording.

On the library side, a lot of effort was devoted to "noexcept". A much
more coherent set of usage guidelines was agreed on, and that meant
going through the standard library and removing a lot of uses of
"noexcept" that were over aggressive. More on that later, since Boost
will probably want to use a similar set of guidelines.

A straw poll for restarting work on Library Technical Report 2 passed
without opposition. There was a lot of private discussion as to which
Boost libraries committee members wanted to see go into TR2.

--Beman