The 2003 C++ standard.

R. Clayton (rclayton@monmouth.edu)
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C++ was accepted as an ISO (world-wide) standard in 1997, and is required to
undergo revisions ever five years, which means this year. This column

  http://www.cuj.com/experts/2102/sutter.htm

describes some of the standard changes being considered. Also, this discussion

  http://lambda.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$6697

starts off talking about the proposals, but rapidly grows to include the C++
complexity and compiler implementations, expert vs. beginning programmers, and
the difficulty of overloading operators. One of the things I liked about this
discussion is that it ratified my belief that c++ is to functional languages as
perl is to regular expressions.

You should have learned enough in 509 to be able to follow most of the
discussions. As a test, one of the correspondents makes a mistake when
describing copy constructors and assignments; what is the mistake?

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