Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

jhanschoo wrote: post #4

This sounds to me like an April Fools joke, but the linked article on new new written on 26 March makes it sound like it's not...

Thank god, it's such a terrible idea, I started freaking out.

Re: Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

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Post by mbel » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:14 AM UTC

The fact that this headline cannot be distinguished from April Fools joke by other commenters seems to say a lot about the direction in which C++ standard committee is heading.

Re: Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:15 AM UTC

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Re: Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:18 AM UTC

mbel wrote: post #6

The fact that this headline cannot be distinguished from April Fools joke by other commenters seems to say a lot about the direction in which C++ standard committee is heading.

maybe HN should have a colored header line to remind people about this day and prevent reactions

Re: Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

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Post by shakna » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:20 AM UTC

jhanschoo wrote: post #4

This sounds to me like an April Fools joke, but the linked article on new new written on 26 March makes it sound like it's not...

They link back from there to a April 1st post, however.

> Additionally, I refer to the post C++ Will no Longer Have Pointers by Fluent C++

Following the trail of references just loops around a half dozen April 1st posts.

With that, and nothing on the drafts [0], that I can see, I'm leaning towards joke.

[0] https://github.com/cplusplus/draft

Re: Deprecating Raw Pointers in C++20

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Post by enitihas » Sun, Apr 01, 2018, 10:20 AM UTC

Can someone with more knowledge about c++ standard comment whether this is for real or it is an April Fools joke. Wouldn't this be an enormous change and probably break the language?