Re: [Boost-users] C++ announcements coming tomorrow

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] C++ announcements coming tomorrow
From: Klaim - Joël Lamotte (mjklaim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-03 11:09:28

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> * Microsoft has released an out-of-band community technical preview
> (CTP) for their compiler, adding explicit conversion operators, raw
> string literals, function template default arguments, delegating
> constructors, uniform initialization, and variatic templates. (See
>
> http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Stephan-T-Lavavej-Core-C-/STLCCSeries6
> for instructions on how to use the CTP). Microsoft is promising more
> such feature releases during the first half of 2013. This is important
> for the whole C++ community, since it means that full C++11 support is
> becoming a reality across all widely used compilers.
>

Herb (and STL) notes in the video that it is important to understand two
things about it:
 1. it's a preview, which means it's not supposed to be used in production
 2. it's only a compiler update, which means the STL is not updated
accordingly (the example being std::vector v ={ 1, 2 , 3 , 4}; not working
yet)

Joel Lamotte