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Re: [v3] annex D 8 and 9 for C++0x


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Joe Buck wrote:

| Also, I had another question: do we expect the TR1 features, or some of
| them, 

Most of TR1 is voted into the wording draft.  The rest (special math
functions) are being pushed into a dedicated standard, instead of the
usual C++ standard.

| to be absorbed into the regular standard, so that some future
| standards version will tell people to write <unordered_set> and not
| <tr1/unordered_set>, and drop the tr1 namespace as well?  And will we
| then get another round of deprecation?  The reason I ask is that a lot
| of long-lived code tries to support being compiled by many compilers,
| and I would like to argue in advance that making people keep changing
| the code is a bad idea.

This is the part that disturbs me.  I don't think we engaging people
by pushing them to use things, in  working codes, and then rush to
deprecate it. 

-- Gaby


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