Re: deprecated: MPL, foreach, typeof, ratio, chrono, assign, more?

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-10-07 22:08:08

On 10/7/24 22:16, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 11:37 AM Robert Ramey via Boost
>> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fewer younger programmers inspire me these days.
>>
>> Younger programmers are just as capable, and clueless, as I was when at that
>> age. The expectations of the older and older C++ community unfairly expects
>> more than we should be. And in many ways it was easier to "grow up" with
>> the advent of computers and programming.
> 
> Age is not the relevant factor here. Forcing people to write C++98 code
> in 2024 probably violates the Geneva convention.

Noone's forcing anyone. Writing C++23 or whatever is pretty orthogonal
to using any of the libraries that were mentioned in this thread.

If anything, declaring core libraries deprecated would force downstream
users to seek for alternatives and update their code.