On 08/14/2015 12:00 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) said:
Well, now all they need is a decent equivalent to Pascal's units (instead of
relying on preprocessor hacks such as #include),
Meet the C(++) Modules proposal:
http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-11/Gregor-Modules.pdf
And Stroustrup is considering modules for C++17:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/04/stroustrup-cpp17-interview
Yes, I know about that too, but I'm still wondering why it took so long.
C++ has an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, where they
introduce every programming language feature they can think of into the
language (they had generics before everyone else, they have multiple
inheritance, esoteric class inheritance modes ("protected inheritance",
wtf), template metaprogramming, etc.), so it's surprising modules took
so long.
Nikolay
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