> I recommend not indicating you're rewording another commenter when you actually disagree with them if you don't want that difference in content pointed out.
I can see why you're upset but KerrAvon describes their statement as the result of "a cursory web search" and it isn't false so I wanted to be clear that what they wrote was not wrong per se. I don't think I "disagree" with a person who used Google, read some stuff and came away with an emphasis on the technical reasons this is a problem rather than how it's actually a problem for real programmers.
Maybe I do disagree with you, that's very possible.
With current C++ you could design a specialization that's somwhat less crap. But what's actually important - and what would actually happen - is that you would not standardize such a specialization at all because everybody knows it's a bad idea to do this - it would still be crap if you tried today, just less crap than in 1998.
C++ chooses to have a bad story for breaking changes. That's a deliberate choice and should be understood that way. WG21 are not hapless victims.
I can see why you're upset but KerrAvon describes their statement as the result of "a cursory web search" and it isn't false so I wanted to be clear that what they wrote was not wrong per se. I don't think I "disagree" with a person who used Google, read some stuff and came away with an emphasis on the technical reasons this is a problem rather than how it's actually a problem for real programmers.
Maybe I do disagree with you, that's very possible.
With current C++ you could design a specialization that's somwhat less crap. But what's actually important - and what would actually happen - is that you would not standardize such a specialization at all because everybody knows it's a bad idea to do this - it would still be crap if you tried today, just less crap than in 1998.
C++ chooses to have a bad story for breaking changes. That's a deliberate choice and should be understood that way. WG21 are not hapless victims.