Re: Interest for C++20 modules support of boost officially

From: Bo Persson (bo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-12-19 08:29:49

On 2024-12-19 at 02:26, Chuanqi Xu via Boost wrote:
> On the other hand, the idea to implement it in Clang without the proposal in WG21 looks like pandora’s box to me.

The committee is sometimes accused of inventing a new language, instead 
of only standardizing. Giving them some proven "existing practice" to 
standardize could be a good idea.

Especially if it has to do with the "export" keyword.  :-)

>   If we did the second point, the code accepted by clang may not be accepted by other compilers. Although it happens now, we don’t want it to be the case. Further more, I feel it makes the position of WG21 to be in a pretty embrassive position.