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> Unfortunately WG21 seems to have some issues with any ideas coming out from Circle, going back to its early days, and I don't see them being willing to adopt Sean's work.

What reasons? Are those valid?



It was due to the metaprogramming capabilities, due to how Circle enables to use full C++ at compile time instead of constexpr/constinit/constval, David Sankel has a talk where he jokes with the WG21 decision process that was behind it,

"Don't constexpr All the Things", from CppNow 2021,

https://youtu.be/NNU6cbG96M4?t=2045


Well, GCC supports -fimplicit-constexpr these days: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Optio...




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