On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Adrian_H
Jonathan Wakely-2 wrote
Noone has written a proposal suggesting that it be standardised. Unless someone does that it ain't gonna happen.
If noone's bothered yet it suggests to me that it isn't all that important to that many people.
How does one write a proposal to the C++ committee?
http://isocpp.org/std/submit-a-proposal
I'll do it. This is a problem that probably comes up a lot, people then figure out some clumsy workaround and then forget about it. These workarounds are just that, and they impact the bottom line as programmers try and figure out some way of figuring them out.
This should be standard. No workaround required.
Jonathan hit the nail on the head.The C++ standard is essentially an open source software project staffed entirely by volunteers. There is no such thing as something that "should be standard" - there are only things that someone has written a proposal for, and then gone to the trouble of shepherding through the standardization process. --Beman