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</div> </div> </header> </div> <div id="content-wrapper" class="content-wrapper"> <div id="content" class="site-content"> <div id="primary" class="content-area"> <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title">Month: <span>February 2019</span></h1> </header> <article id="post-3703" class="post-3703 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="entry-title"><a href="https://herbsutter.com/2019/02/23/trip-report-winter-iso-c-standards-meeting-kona/" rel="bookmark">Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting (Kona)</a></h1> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>A few minutes ago, the ISO C++ committee completed its winter meeting in Kona, HI, USA, hosted with thanks by Plum Hall, NVIDIA, and the Standard C++ Foundation. As usual, we met for six days Monday through Saturday, including most evenings. This and the previous meeting were the biggest ISO C++ meetings in our 29-year history, and this time we had a new record of 13 voting national bodies represented in person: Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. For more details about our size increase, including how we adapted organizationally to handle the load, see <a href="https://herbsutter.com/2018/11/05/pre-trip-report-fall-iso-c-standards-meeting-san-diego/">my San Diego “pre-trip” report</a> and my <a href="https://herbsutter.com/2018/11/13/trip-report-fall-iso-c-standards-meeting-san-diego/">San Diego trip report</a>.</p> <p><strong>Thank you to all of the hundreds of people who participate in ISO C++ </strong>in person and electronically. Below, I want to at least try to recognize by name many of the authors of the proposals we adopted, but nobody succeeds with a proposal on their own. C++ is a team effort – this wouldn’t be possible without all of your help. So, thank you, and apologies for not being able to acknowledge everyone by name.</p> <p>Notes:</p> <ul> <li>Some of the links below are to papers that will not be published until the post-meeting mailing a few weeks from now, and so the links will start working at that time.</li> <li>You can find a brief summary of ISO procedures <a href="https://isocpp.org/std/iso-iec-jtc1-procedures">here</a>.</li> </ul> <h1>C++20 feature freeze</h1> <p>Per our <a href="http://wg21.link/p1000">official C++20 schedule</a>, this was the last meeting to approve features for C++20, so we gave priority to proposals that might make C++20 or otherwise could make solid progress, and we deferred other proposals to be considered at a future meeting — not at all as a comment on the proposals, but just for lack of time at this meeting. (I’ve been holding back from publishing updates to my own <a href="http://wg21.link/p0707">P0707</a> and <a href="http://wg21.link/p0709">P0709</a> proposals, generation+metaclasses and lightweight exception handling, for this very reason.)</p> <p>So we now know most of the final feature set of C++20! At our next meeting in July, we expect to formally adopt a few additional features that were design-approved at this meeting but didn’t complete full wording specification review this week, and then at the end of the July meeting we will launch the primary international comment ballot (aka CD ballot) for C++20.</p> <h1>Two more major features adopted for C++20: Modules and coroutines</h1> <p>Again, I want to acknowledge the primary proposal authors by name, who did a lot of the heavy lifting. But none of this would be possible without the hard work of scores of people at this meeting and over the past few years including in alternative proposals.</p> <p><a href="https://wg21.link/P1103"><strong>Modules (Gabriel Dos Reis, Richard Smith)</strong></a> was adopted for C++20. Modules are a new alternative to header files that deliver a number of key improvements, notably isolating the effects of macros and enabling scalable builds. As I’ve <a href="https://youtu.be/80BZxujhY38?t=193">said in talks</a> (<a href="https://youtu.be/4AfRAVcThyA?t=1866">another example</a>), I personally find this feature very significant for several reasons, but the most fundamental is that this is the first time in about 35 years that C++ has added a new feature where users can define a named encapsulation boundary. Until now, we have had three such language features that let programmers create their own Words of Power by (a) giving a user-defined name to (b) something whose implementation is hidden. They are: the variable (which encapsulates the current value), the function (which encapsulates code and behavior), and the class (which encapsulates both to deliver a bunch of state and functions together). Even other major features such as templates are ways to adorn or parameterize those three fundamental features. To these three we now add a fourth: the module (which encapsulates all three to deliver a bunch of them together). That’s a fundamental reason underlying why modules enable further improvements that can now follow on in future C++ evolution.</p> <p><a href="https://wg21.link/p0912"><strong>Coroutines (Gor Nishanov)</strong></a> was adopted for C++20. A number of other authors that have their own coroutine proposals have also done great work to give feedback to this design and inform the committee in the process of showing their own designs, and the adopted coroutines design is expected to adopt some of their additional programming capabilities in the future as well as we continue to build on it after C++20. At this meeting, we had many detailed design discussions, including notably these papers that will be available in a few weeks when the post-meeting mailing is posted: <a href="https://wg21.link/p1493">a unified consensus report from all coroutines proposers describing the strengths and weaknesses of all their proposals</a>, and <a href="https://wg21.link/p1492">a consensus report from implementers from all major C++ compilers about the tradeoffs and feasibility of the basic facilities required by the various coroutines proposals</a>. Both of these papers are very educational and highly recommended.</p> <h1>Other changes approved for C++20</h1> <p>A number of other smaller changes were adopted as well.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://wg21.link/p1091"><strong>Extending structured bindings</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="https://wg21.link/p1381"><strong>reference capture of structured bindings (Nicolas Lesser)</strong></a> allow a name introduced as a structured binding to be used in additional ways that programmers would naturally expect to work, such as allowing them to be captured by reference in lambdas.</li> <li><a href="https://wg21.link/p0960"><strong>Allow initializing aggregates from a parenthesized list of values (Ville Voutilainen and Thomas Köppe)</strong></a> allows using () to initialize aggregates in addition to {}. See <a href="https://wg21.link/n4462">N4462</a> for an example of the kind of problems this fixes.</li> <li><a href="https://wg21.link/p1185"><strong><=> != == (Barry Revzin)</strong></a> adds better language support for composability when writing <=> for types that can write a more efficient == than using the <=> operator alone. For example, vector<T> can short-circuit == comparison by first checking whether the two vectors have the same size; if they don’t, we know in constant time that they cannot be equal without comparing any of the elements. The previous guidance for such types was that in addition to <=> they should also overload == and !=, and that any types that compose such types have to know to do the same so as not to lose the optimization. With this change, we can more simply teach that for such types in addition to <=> they should also overload ==, full stop; there is no need to also overload !=, and no need for other types that use such a type to be especially careful so avoid losing the optimization .</li> <li><a href="http://wg21.link/p1227"><strong>Change span to use unsigned size, and add ssize() functions to get signed sizes (Jorg Brown and many others)</strong></a> makes std::span more convenient to use with existing STL types, while also allowing use of signed sizes and indexes via ssize() to get the benefits of signedness.</li> <li><a href="http://wg21.link/p0339"><strong>polymorphic_allocator (Pablo Halpern, Dietmar Kühl)</strong></a> allows pmr::memory_resource to be used wherever allocators can be used in the standard library.</li> <li><a href="http://wg21.link/p1001"><strong>Adopt vectorization policies from Parallelism TS2 (Alisdair Meredith, Pablo Halpern)</strong></a> further extends the parallel STL algorithms with vector execution policies that allow programs to exploit the parallelism of vector units available on modern CPUs.</li> <li>A slew of broad papers restating the standard library in terms of our new C++20 language features of concepts and contracts that were already adopted at recent meetings. See <a href="https://wg21.link/p0788">P0788</a> and <a href="http://wg21.link/p1369">P1369</a> for a great overview of what this involves. This is part of the standard library’s intentional evolution toward replacing exceptions with contracts for preconditions (such as domain and range errors) in future C++.</li> <li>Lots of smaller features and individual issues resolutions.</li> </ul> <h1>Other features targeting C++20 for the July meeting</h1> <p>Several other features were design-approved for C++20 this week but did not yet have their specification wording reviewed to merge into the working draft at this meeting, and they are hoped to be formally adopted at our July meeting in Cologne. These include things like <a href="http://wg21.link/p0645">text formatting</a>, <a href="http://wg21.link/p0429">flat_map</a>, more ranges and algorithms such as move-only views, an automatically joining thread with stop token support, and more. I’ll cover which of these are actually adopted in my July trip report, when we know what landed at that meeting.</p> <h1>The shape of C++20 (modulo any additional features in July)</h1> <p>Now that we are close to knowing the final feature set of C++20, we can see will be C++’s largest release since C++11. “Major” features include at least the following:</p> <ul> <li>modules</li> <li>coroutines</li> <li>concepts</li> <li>contracts</li> <li><=> spaceship</li> <li>“lots more constexpr”: broad use of normal C++ for direct compile-time programming, without resorting to template metaprogramming (see last trip report)</li> <li>ranges</li> <li>calendars and time zones</li> <li>span</li> <li>and lots more</li> </ul> <p>Combined with what came in C++14 and C++17, the C++14/17/20 nine-year cycle is arguably our biggest nine-year cycle yet alongside the previous two (C++98 and C++11) in terms of new features added. We understand that’s exciting, but we also understand that’s a lot for the community to absorb, and so I’m also pleased that along the way we’ve done things like create the Direction Group and, most recently, SG20 on Education, to help guide and absorb continued C++ evolution in our vibrant living language.</p> <h1>Other progress and decisions</h1> <p><strong>Executors and Networking</strong>: Both of these continue to progress together, as Networking depends on Executors. We had hoped that part of Executors might be ready for C++20 but they didn’t make the cut, and both of these are now on track for soon post-C++20 (i.e., early in the C++23 cycle).</p> <p><a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/n4766.pdf"><strong>Reflection TS v1 (David Sankel, Axel Naumann)</strong></a><strong> completed.</strong> The Reflection TS international comments have now been processed and the TS is approved for publication. As I mentioned in other trip reports, note again that the TS’s current template metaprogramming-based syntax is just a placeholder; the feedback being requested is on the core “guts” of the design, and the committee already knows it intends to replace the surface syntax with a simpler programming model that uses ordinary compile-time code and not <>-style metaprogramming.</p> <p><a href="http://wg21.link/p0052"><strong>Generic Scope Guard and RAII Wrapper for the Standard Library (Peter Sommerlad, Andrew Sandoval, Eric Niebler, Daniel Krügler)</strong></a> was adopted into the Library Fundamentals 3 TS.</p> <p>Thank you again to the approximately 180 experts who attended this meeting, and the many more who participate in standardization through their national bodies! 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