On 3/1/2016 10:21 AM, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> 01.03.2016 16:14, Jim Starkey wrote:
>>    Dropping support for platforms so you can use new C++
>> features that really don't add anything to the language.
>     More readable and error-prone code worth that, IMHO.
>
More readable is a virtue, though I dare say eliminating the thousands 
of casts in favor of simple type safety would do a great deal more for 
code readability than a little more syntactic sugar.

The "error prone" argument gets tossed around a lot, but I generally 
don't buy it.  Language features are not a substitute for testing. Sure, 
"override" will get a compiler error if you blow an overriding method 
prototype, but so will cursory testing.  The argument makes more sense 
in a rapid agile development environment, but much less so in a 30 year 
old database system.

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