Re: Backward compatibility

Subject: Re: Backward compatibility
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-07-04 22:35:31

On 5 July 2018 at 00:10, Christian Henning <chhenning_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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

Thanks. I've started watching this one a few days ago, but newer edition,
from this year's C++Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtU51Ytfe04

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net