Yeah, this one is so weird. You've been able to do that forever in C, and virtually all big compilers have this keyword in C++ as well, just named __restrict. W

Yeah, this one is so weird. You've been able to do that forever in C, and virtually all big compilers have this keyword in C++ as well, just named __restrict. Why is it so hard to get into the standard, at least for pointers? I can imagine that there are complex semantics with regards to references that are tricky to get right, but can't we at least have "'restrict" can only be used on raw pointer types, and it means the same thing as it does in C"?