Whilst reading Scott Meyers’ Effective Modern C++, I was looking for some clarification on ‘generalised lambda capture’ and came across this C++ 14 feature list. It was interesting to compare to the list of expected features that Bjarne Stroustrup presented at the ACCU 2013 conference – he described all of the following, which made it into C++14:
- Generalised return type deduction for normal functions, not just lambdas
- Generic (polymorphic) lambdas
- Generalised constexpr functions (listed as Extended constexpt on the feature list)
- Binary Literals
- Digit Separators
- Deprecated Attribute
However, this one appears not to have made the cut:
- Runtime-sized arrays
This would be a great new feature and I blogged about it at the time – but it appears the work has stalled.
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