• Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    Contacts have been talked about since C++11 so it’s kinda sad that in 15 years they haven’t managed to get them done.

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      4 months ago

      That’s perfectly fine. It’s a standardization process. Its goal is to set in stone a specification that everyone agrees to. Everything needs to line up.

      In the meantime, some compiler vendors provide their own contracts support. If you feel this is a mandatory feature, nothing prevents you from using vendor-specific implementations. For example, GCC has support for contracts since at least 2022, and it’s mostly in line with the stuff discussed in the standardization meetings.