Re: [boost] [C++0x] ISO/IEC approves C++0x standard!

Subject: Re: [boost] [C++0x] ISO/IEC approves C++0x standard!
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-15 19:33:19

On 8/15/2011 4:59 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
> on Sun Aug 14 2011, John Bytheway<jbytheway+boost-AT-gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> On 13/08/11 23:32, Edward Diener wrote:
>>> On 8/13/2011 11:43 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>>>> The C++0x standard has been approved by ISO/IEC. The vote was
>>>> unanimous; all
>>>> 21 National Bodies voting were in favor.
>>>>
>>>> That means the dozen or so Boost libraries that were in TR1 are now
>>>> part of
>>>> the standard itself. Good work, Boosters!
>>>
>>> Bravo !
>>>
>>> What is the official name of the new C++ standard ? You refer to it as
>>> C++0x, which is the name I have been accustomed to hear, but other are
>>> now saying C++11.
>>
>> I think this depends when it gets published.  That's very likely to be
>> this year, in which case C++11.
>
> That would be the unofficial name.  Bronek had the correct official
> designation.

I was really asking what informal nomenclature will most likely be used 
to refer to the new C++ standard. It seems C++11 will probably be the 
way it will informally be called, and not C++0x as many have gotten used 
to referring to it while it was still in the process of standardization.