Re: New C++ 0x
RenjithMohan wrote:
I am looking forward to the really cool language extensions and library
enhancements in the new C++ 0x. But at the same time, i see that some
of the new features are already implemented in a preview C# 3.0
edition. I refer specifically to the features like
1) Implicitly typed variables where the compiler automagically guesses
the type of the variable.
where if you say
var i = 10;
This was suggested for C++ years ago, using the keyword "let". That
was considered to break existing code. Then it was proposed with the
keyword "auto", but that generated ambiguities.
The real reason for this was to allow
std::vector<int> tab;
...
for (let p = tab.begin(); p != tab.end(); p++)
{ }
instead of
std::vector<int> tab;
...
for (std::vector<int>::iterator p = tab.begin(); p != tab.end(); p++)
{ }
which is somewhat unwieldy.
But the "can't add keywords" faction won, so it's a dead idea in C++.
John Nagle
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