WILLIAM SEYMOUR wrote:
>
> Congratulations to all the folks on J16/WG21
> for a job well done!
>
> Question:  is the December '96 DWP close enough
> to the Standard (except for auto_ptr) that I can
> reasonably use it until ANSI gets the real
> Standard printed?

To summary areas of major changes:

Core
----
overloading: minor changes in the wording, bug fix, important
             changes for enum overloading
templates: important changes
* object elision rule (when you copy an object): completly rewritten

Library
-------
* auto_ptr: complete change
* STL exception safety: added
* string: important correction for ptr/ref/iter lifetime

So in order to implement a library or a compiler, using
the Dec 96 draft isn't resonnable. To check something
simple, it's usable, except in the above areas (and I
might have missed others).

* The star means that noknowing the old version you won't
even reconise the new one.

--

Valentin Bonnard                mailto:bonnardv@pratique.fr
info about C++/a propos du C++: http://www.pratique.fr/~bonnardv/
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Congratulations to all the folks on J16/WG21
for a job well done!

Question:  is the December '96 DWP close enough
to the Standard (except for auto_ptr) that I can
reasonably use it until ANSI gets the real
Standard printed?

--Bill Seymour
  Vocabulary Representative, J11
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