Re: Backward compatibility

Subject: Re: Backward compatibility
From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-04 22:10:51

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:08 PM Christian Henning <chhenning_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> > So far we were using the fact that GIL hasn't received updates in years
>> as
>> > rationale for not caring much about backward compatibility.
>>
>> Yes
>>
>
> I think just the introduction of c++11 features like variadic templates
> will "dramatically" reduce the source code and I guess will change the API
> in some ways. Same goes for features already in gil like SFINAE which can
> be expressed better these days in c++17.
>

Sorry, I forgot, when I wrote these statements I have Dionne's cppcon talk
in mind.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVGtNFg4ay0