Re: Proposal for adding C++ level to the meta/libraries.json

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-09-22 02:00:15

Gavin Lambert wrote:
> There's already a "std": [ "tr1"/"proposal" ] field, perhaps this should 
> be extended rather than replaced?
>
> While undocumented, I note some libraries have already made use of this as 
> std: [ "c++17" ] for example.

"std" actually means something different: which C++ standard contains the 
library. (E.g. boost::bind is in C++11, boost::optional is in C++17.)