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>"I'm curious if people have found this to be a problem in practice." Same. And I think you articulated the specific concerns I have about just learning the "m
by bogomipz 9y ago
>"I'm curious if people have found this to be a problem in practice."
Same. And I think you articulated the specific concerns I have about just learning the "modern" version.
It would certainly lower the barrier to entry in learning C++ if this was an unfounded concern.
C++ has some 35 year of history and changes at this point. This point alone adds(for me anyway) to the perceived cognitive load of learning it. C also has a similar length of history but it is a much smaller language.
- oblio 9y ago> It would certainly lower the barrier to entry in learning C++ if this was an unfounded concern. If the Javascript community, which is as fragmented as C++, if not more, could introduce "strict" mode and enforce it basically everywhere, then maybe C++ could do the same thing. Have C++20 recommend a certain subset of C++, have C++24 warn as deprecated features not in this subset, have C++30 error out on everything outside this subset, unless the compiler is set to compatibility mode and finally have C++40 refuse to compile the old code.
- DoofusOfDeath 9y agoI'll take your word for it regarding JS, but I was thinking along the same lines w.r.t. C++ deprecation. Alternatively, one could take a page from CMake's playbook with "policies" [0]. [0] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.7/manual/cmake-policies.7.html#cmake-policies-7 https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.7/manual/cmake-policies.7.ht...
- oblio 9y agoECMAScript 6 modules are in strict mode only: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31685340/1320143 https://stackoverflow.com/a/31685340/1320143 I think C++ is getting modules, maybe they could do the same thing?