News From the ISO C++ Standardization meeting.
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I just got back from the ISO C++ Standardization meeting, held this passed week in Toronto, ON, CA. (Meeting are held twice a year, once inside North America, and one outside. The next will be in April 2001, in Copenhagen, Denmark). Since the Standard itself was finalized in 1998, the work since than has been in defect reports: User comments about errors, inconsisencies, or ambiguities in the Standard. The news this weeks is that the committee is now prepared to release the Technical Corrigenda, which is the list of the changes made to the Standard. The TC should be released in the coming months (Andy Koenig, the Committee project editor assures us that it will be complete before the Copenhagen meeting) The other big news of the meeeting, is now that the TC is finished, the Library working group has agreed to start looking into extensions to the Standard Library. Since the Boost Library (www.boost.org) was created by comittee members with the plan that they would some day be added to the Standard Library, that may be a good place to see what coming soon. The Core working group, has handles the language proper, is still a bit reluctent to consider adding anything to the Standard. (They joked that is must be a "Zero-Sum" proposal, where whenever you suggest something to add, you must also suggest something to remove "to make room".