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Binary banshees and digital demons (2021)
The Committee says these things do not exist. The Committee says these things are invisible, not our business, and not something we can or should talk about.
Maybe we can ask the author of P1844 — Nozomu Katō-san, a man we’ve already disappointed despite him doing the proper job of shipping and gaining usage and deployment experience with a standard-like regex library supporting Unicode-encoding-aware iteration — to just make something completely new. So when I took my naïve self to represent the paper on behalf of Alex Christensen, and I was informed that moving from the storage that was “hoisted” out of the loop by the compiler in an effort to save on space / constructions, I was initially like “oh, I’ll just write a proposal for std::initializers!”. Dear reader, let me tell you that even if you are a multibillion dollar corporation, being so brave as to tell the world you’re going to ship a brand new API and on Day 0 mark it as “stable, forever” is the kind of stuff you’d hear amongst developers after they all ate the specially-baked cookies & brownies, and the hookahs came out.
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