> On 6 Oct 2019, at 1:18 pm, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> that is extremely sensible and what many might expect, so we should consider
> adding it like that as a synonym for the compiler year, but that does also
> set that flag. I also said as much when this first came about.
I would support doing that. I also was a little surprised to see the feature
was implemented by specifying the year, rather than the specific standard to
use.
Chris
> Many years ago I read that Apple (Steve) sat in a room watching people try to
> use the new Macs, and saw how they were trying to do certain tasks. He then
> went back and made the computer work that way.
>
> Big lesson there.
>
> K
>
>> On Oct 6, 2019, at 05:10, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> that we would specify the language standard needed, i.e. "c++17" or
>> "gnu++11".