alt Hacker NewsI don't think that's true? Nothing gets in the standard without substantial actual experience on at least an experimental compiler branch first. It's just not always your compiler.
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spacechild1 • today at 12:07 PM
The one big and tragic exception being modules...
`export template` was included in the C++98 standard without any experience, experimental or otherwise. The first implementation was achieved by EDG after enormous pain in the early 2000s, and their advice for any others attempting it was "don't". I'm not aware of anything else quite that egregious, though.
https://www.open-std.org/Jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n14...