People said the same about Perl and its “there’s more than one way to do things” ethos, which gained much criticism. Same is true for C++. In this specific ca

People said the same about Perl and its “there’s more than one way to do things” ethos, which gained much criticism. Same is true for C++. In this specific case, I think a lazy load directive isn’t a bad addition. But one does need to be careful about adding new language features just because you have an active community.