On Monday, 17 October 2016 at 13:02:20 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
I would say the better attitude to have is that you may not
expect results to always go your way, and put out your best
effort. If it doesn't work, that's the way it is, move on to
something more interesting and/or satisfying.
Also, consider the creator of C++'s recent 0/3 track record of
getting his proposals into C++17:
http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/195226/#msg938814
I was surprised that even his scaled-back UFCS proposal didn't
get in:
https://isocpp.org/blog/2016/02/a-bit-of-background-for-the-unified-call-proposal
Note the comments after the OP there: he wants full UFCS but will
settle for at least one-way. I guess even that didn't get in.