Re: [boost] [BB++] Consensus

Subject: Re: [boost] [BB++] Consensus
From: Richard Hodges (hodges.r_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-02 16:33:18

If you can create an *easy* (i.e. impossible to get it wrong) way to
introduce deterministic garbage collection into c++, I think this might be
a big enough win to convince me that garbage collection can be considered
as a serious software engineering tool.

On 2 August 2017 at 18:18, Phil Bouchard via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> After the feedback I got back from the community, people agree they would
> rather improve C++ than seeing a new language taking off.
>
> I definitely agree but I would like professional opinions on how the
> following could be achieved:
> - to add instances of an object implicitly as each scope;
> - to add implicit references to these objects in top-level classes
> - to overload 'operator .'
> - to use 'auto' for member variables instead of 'decltype'
>
> Thanks for your help I really appreciate.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> -Phil
>
>
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