Finally, after too many years study­ing at DIKU, I’m about to start on my master’s the­sis. That feels weird.

But I’m still not sure what I want to write about. I’ve got a few ideas, mainly by ask­ing some of the pro­fes­sors I might want as advi­sors if they had any inter­est­ing projects lying around. (more…)

So I just dis­cov­ered that Con­cepts have appar­ently been dropped from the C++0x stan­dard draft.

On the sur­face, a strange, strange deci­sion. Con­cepts was, prob­a­bly more than any­thing else, the face of C++0x. Remov­ing that is going to make a lot of peo­ple won­der “so why do we need the new stan­dard again?”

It was billed as the fea­ture that would make C++ usable for non-experts again. It was going to show C# gener­ics and their ane­mic con­straints mech­a­nism “how it should be done”. And now it’s gone. Why, and what does it mean for C++?

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