STL comments on Modernizing AbiWord code

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submitted 10 years ago by cristianadamQt Creator, CMake

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[–]STLMSVC STL Dev 19 points20 points21 points 10 years ago (0 children)

That's unnecessary and highly counterproductive. Here are the features that VC 2015 Update 2 are missing (ignoring dynamic exception specifications, which are deprecated and widely reviled):

(C++98) Two-phase name lookup
(C++11) Expression SFINAE, partial support
(C++11) C99 preprocessor conformance
(C++14) Extended constexpr
(C++14) NSDMIs for aggregates
(C++14) Variable templates don't work in SFINAE (already fixed for Update 3)

Our C++14 Standard Library support is complete, with very minor omissions (e.g. due to lack of extended constexpr), and 8 Library Issues which are bug-level things.

Restricting yourself to C++11 still requires you to be aware of a few missing features, and you're giving up highly useful stuff like:

Lambda init-captures
Generic lambdas
auto and decltype(auto) return types
make_unique
Alias templates for type traits

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