> I find it interesting that the C++ committee would make that kind of mistake. Shouldn't they know better? The main reason why people attend WG21 meetings is

> I find it interesting that the C++ committee would make that kind of mistake. Shouldn't they know better? The main reason why people attend WG21 meetings is to get their pet features into the C++ language or the associated standard library. To some extent you can further that goal by shooting down other people's suggestions, especially if they would conflict ‡ C++ is a vast sprawling language. There are no genuine "C++ experts" for the same reason there aren't any people who know all of mathematics. There are a lot of people who are experts on some corner of the language or its libraries, and some who know a little bit about almost everything but no overarching experts. ‡ A good way to do this work would try to have such rivals all work together to improve the language, a sort of "yes, and" collaborative approach but although this has occasionally been able to work in C++ the whole WG21 structure works against it, in particular they vote to achieve consensus, which is not what the word "consensus" means and rewards appeasing haters much more than it does finding out what the problems are and working to fix them.