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Since the two main comments in this thread are unnecessary negative, I will point out the ongoing discussion in /r/cpp:

http://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1z1b1q/c17_i_see_a_mona...

The author of the post is also participating there.

Everyone in the c-preprocessor subreddit is surprisingly open minded about new c++ features.

I honestly don't understand the outrage here. This is about standard library functionality, not new language features. As far as standard libraries go, C++'s is actually pretty small and could use some additions.

(I presume) dmm is cracking a joke about how he thinks "cpp" should mean "C preprocessor" and not C++.

Thanks for the explanation. My mind had been blown for a couple seconds. :)

It's sad to see so much trolling on this language but I suppose we all had to maintain old C++ programs that became spagetti codes and dependancy hells.

I'm currently working on a new project using C++11/14 and it's a pleasure to see more functional features that will allow to be more concise.

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