Zorba the Hutt wrote:
> I'm working up a few extensions to C++ that I consider improvements.
> I was wondering if anyone would be willing to (a) offer helpful
> suggestions (b) suggest more improvements or (c) help me get a
> working compiler for these
[...]
> I'd write up the ideas right here, except it'd involve a LOT of
> typing and I'm still formulating some of them. Is anyone interested,
> or is this the wrong thing for this group?

This forum (news:comp.std.c++) is definitely one of the best places
for proposing new features for C++.  That's one of the reasons this
newsgroup exists.

But be aware that you're going to do a lot of typing no matter how or
where you make your proposal.  You should write up the proposal as a
simple text or HTML file (suitable for email), citing all of the
relevant sections in the standard that are affected by the proposal.
Be prepared to defend your proposal, and to explain how it offers a
capability that can't be done with the existing langauage/library.

It's also handy, once you've written a nice proposal, to put in on
a web page somewhere.

--
David R. Tribble, mailto:david@tribble.com, http://david.tribble.com

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Okay, first easy question: does this newsgroup have a FAQ somewhere that I
could look at to avoid making a fool of myself and/or getting people angry
at me?

Now, to the main section . . .

I'm working up a few extensions to C++ that I consider improvements. I was
wondering if anyone would be willing to (a) offer helpful suggestions (b)
suggest more improvements or (c) help me get a working compiler for these :P
I don't know how sick people in here are of hearing "I've got some marvelous
things that would make C++ easier to use!" and then having it turn out that
all the suggestions are pure junk - I'm quite willing to be shot down here
as long as I can get some good reasons why these are bad ideas (the best
reasons gotten from other places have been on the order of "because they
wouldn't be used very often", which as far as I'm concerned isn't a good
reason at all).

I'd write up the ideas right here, except it'd involve a LOT of typing and
I'm still formulating some of them. Is anyone interested, or is this the
wrong thing for this group? And if this is the wrong place, can someone
point me to a better place?

Thanks . . .

-Zorba

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Zorba the Hutt wrote:
>
> Okay, first easy question: does this newsgroup have a FAQ somewhere that I
> could look at to avoid making a fool of myself and/or getting people angry
> at me?

In the footer of every message posted to comp.std.c++ -- peruse and
enjoy.

(I note that "where is the FAQ is a FAQ even though it's mentioned in
every
message on this group.  Solutions, anyone?)

-- James Dennett

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