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Re: Diffs between C++98 and C++2003?

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On 02/05/2012 19:11, James Kuyper wrote:
>
> I was, at one time, a fairly active participant in this group, and very
> familiar with the C++98 standard. However, my job gave me no
> opportunities to use what I knew about C++, so I had very little actual
> experience with it. I lost interest in following C++ standardization
> issues around the time the 2003 standard was being developed.
>
> I've just been assigned new responsibilities, which include working with
> C++; but the version they're using in my new group is C++2003. Is there
> somewhere I can find a comprehensive list (not just a summary) of what
> was new in C++2003? I've got a fairly recent draft of the the latest
> standard, but that includes many new features that my new group won't be
> using, and I don't want to be distracted by those features (yet). It
> only identifies as changes, those things that were changed from C++2003,
> not the things that were changed in C++2003.
>
> I got a summary from a member of my new group, who basically said
> "nothing important changed". That doesn't sound reasonable; I remember
> that one of the reasons I dropped out of the newsgroup around that time
> was that so many new features were being proposed that I had trouble
> keeping track of them. I doubt that ALL of the proposals got shot down.
>

Actually, nothing important changed is not a bad summary of C++2003.
There was a certain amount of cleaning up but the new features being
proposed were for C++0x (and C++2003 wasn't that)



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Diffs between C++98 and C++2003? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-02 11:11 -0700
  Re: Diffs between C++98 and C++2003? James Dennett <james.dennett@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 11:06 -0700
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  Re: Diffs between C++98 and C++2003? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-05-03 13:09 -0600
  Re: Diffs between C++98 and C++2003? Francis Glassborow <francis.glassborow@btinternet.com> - 2012-05-03 11:43 -0700

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