Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Francis Glassborow Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Diffs between C++98 and C++2003? Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 11:43:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: unknown Lines: 35 Sender: std-cpp-request@vandevoorde.com Approved: james.dennett@gmail.com Message-ID: References: <4FA15B12.50504@verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: RQ7+L8GAaPBmDgLSA6d3LHKyKjeafNkBPwWTI81/YMI= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Trace: news.albasani.net iXGHx7GalhC8tMfkjBgcG7br0jix39yizJIgOHgul3uSkSnqFagV0bfdXrvMhVJNAJ3y403ZTzNx6FTc4LTykA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 18:43:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v2.05 X-Submission-Address: std-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com Cancel-Lock: sha1:cmZd8sV4muB2f/iwYiJVRdC3xeg= X-Original-Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 19:05:11 +0100 Xref: csiph.com comp.std.c++:510 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) -- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try posting with your ] [ newsreader. If that fails, use mailto:std-cpp-submit@vandevoorde.com ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]