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DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en;CHARSET=utf-8:All right, the C++11 Standard is done. Can we go home? Definitely not - progress waits for no one. For all its might, C++11 is not addressing a few basic needs in template programming. For example, you'd hate to have to define a new function or indeed a whole new class wherever you need an "if" statement; yet, this is exactly what we do for template code. Also, conditional overloading using the likes of std::enable_if is syntactically bulky and semantically ham-fisted (as is visible with constructors and other special functions). This talk describes a new proposal (joint work with Herb Sutter and Walter Bright): a "static if" construct that works much like "if", just during compilation. It's reminiscent of #if, just done copiously right.With "static if" a lot of generic code becomes radically simpler, which in turn enables idioms that today are too complex to be usable. This proposal for C++ benefits from a large body of experience within the D programming language.
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CONTACT;LANGUAGE=en;CHARSET=utf-8:Andrei Alexandrescu
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>All right, the C&#43;&#43;11 Standard is done. Can we go home? Definitely not - progress waits for no one.</p><p>For all its might, C&#43;&#43;11 is not addressing a few basic needs in template programming. For example, you'd hate to have to define a new function or indeed a whole new class wherever you need an &quot;if&quot; statement; yet, this is exactly what we do for template code. Also, conditional overloading using the likes of std::enable_if is syntactically bulky and semantically ham-fisted (as is visible with constructors and other special functions).</p><p>This talk describes a new proposal (joint work with Herb Sutter and Walter Bright): a &quot;static if&quot; construct that works much like &quot;if&quot;, just during compilation. It's reminiscent of #if, just done copiously right.<br><br>With &quot;static if&quot; a lot of generic code becomes radically simpler, which in turn enables idioms that today are too complex to be usable. This proposal for C&#43;&#43; benefits from a large body of experience within the D programming language.</p>
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