Re: [polyml] [RFC] move to C++11

2019-05-21 Thread David Matthews
On 19/05/2019 18:43, Makarius wrote: On 19/05/2019 17:46, Matthew Fernandez wrote: If I understand the version numbering correctly, those MinGW versions are derived from GCC 4.9.3 which supports C++11. Such claims of supporting certain standards are rarely accurate. It usually takes years

Re: [polyml] [RFC] move to C++11

2019-05-21 Thread David Matthews
I've been thinking about this and reading the various comments. On the whole I'm not convinced that any change would actually be worthwhile at the moment. There would be a very good case for using some of these features if the code were being written from scratch but it's far from clear that