Speaking of C++0x, time has run out for Stroustrup's Schroedinger's cat 'x', the box opens this year. Either 'x' will collapse to a concrete 9 (in which case we should be referring to C++09already), or the standard won't be issued in 0x at all.
Posted Jan 30, 2009 2:50 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
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the expectation is that it will not be ratified this year (there are too many steps left in the process)
C++0x -- flogging a dead cat?
Posted Jan 30, 2009 4:36 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
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No problem. If it comes out next year, just read it as a roman numeral.
But if it comes out in 2011, I guess they'd have to call it C++0xi.
C++0x -- flogging a dead cat?
Posted Jan 30, 2009 5:53 UTC (Fri) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
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Bah - not roman - hex! C++0xA of course!
Pete
PS: can't believe I'm the only one that saw that... or maybe
just the first
C++0x -- flogging a dead cat?
Posted Jan 30, 2009 12:36 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
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Of course it's hex! I stand corrected. Obvious when you think about it.
C++0x -- flogging a dead cat?
Posted Jan 30, 2009 15:48 UTC (Fri) by anton (guest, #25547)
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It was probably in 1989 when I read a comment that Fortran 8x would
have to use hex digits if it needed any longer. However, the released
version was not called Fortran 8A, but Fortran 90.