Re: gtkmm and C++0x

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 00:02 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:01:10 -0400
> José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net> wrote:
> > What could be changed, as Murray already said, are the examples in
> > the gtkmm-documentation module.  It could be worthwhile to see if
> > the examples could be modified to use these upcoming C++ features.
> 
> Provided it does not make the library uncompilable for anyone using a
> c++98/03 compiler.  I don't think it would be right to make the
> library unusable for those people, just for the purpose of showing
> others in the examples how to use the extended auto keyword in c++0x.

Yes.  This would only be possible if the c++98/03 standard would be
completely superseded by the new standard so that the new standard would
be the only thing people use (which of course would probably be a long
time).

-- 
José