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next C++ standard

Posted Sep 17, 2009 19:17 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Blocks in C, not C++ by cry_regarder
Parent article: Tornado and Grand Central Dispatch: a quick look

I think that the joke is funnier if you interpret the "0x" as the hexadecimal prefix in C and, well, C++; so "0xA" is "10" in legal C. Therefore decimal "C++09" is followed by hexadecimal "C++0xA".

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Posted Sep 18, 2009 11:41 UTC (Fri) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link] (1 responses)

But 0 as a prefix means octal, so 09 is actually an illegal constant. :-(

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Posted Sep 27, 2009 22:23 UTC (Sun) by bluss (guest, #47454) [Link]

Well then, fools were we to expect that an illegal C++09 would ever be released!