published 26. June 2023

Ahoi C++26

From June 12 to 17, the meeting of the C++ Standardization Committee took place in Varna, on the golden beach of the Black Sea in Bulgaria – RISC Software GmbH has been participating with Michael Hava since October 2019. It was also the first official C++26 meeting – that is, the new version of the C++ programming language, which should be final by 2026.

As previously reported, Michael brought some concerns in the form of papers that have now also been adopted at this meeting. These are the following topics:

P2495R3: Interfacing stringstreams with string_view is a usability bugfix for the standard library.
P2697R1: Interfacing bitset with string_view is another usability bugfix.
P2548R6: copyable_function is a library extension to be able to store copyable function objects.

In addition, two other issues were also advanced by him:

P2819R0: Add tuple protocol to complex allows structured binding for complex numbers and is at the same time preliminary work for the support of pattern matching.
P2774R0: Scoped thread-local storage proposes a library extension for efficient caching of results in parallel computations.

About Michael Hava

Michael Hava, Senior Software Developer and C++ luminary at RISC Software GmbH, is part of the C++ Standardization Committee. He joined RISC Software in 2011 during his master studies at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria – Campus Hagenberg. Since then, he has promoted the adoption of modern C++ in various areas of technology. With the goal of extending this promotion to education, he returned to his former university of applied sciences as a part-time lecturer in 2016. After attending his first C++ standardization meeting in 2019, he became a founding member of the Austrian C++ Working Group and serves as chair of the national body. He remains in the LEWG most of the time and several of his papers are currently focused on C++26: P2495, P2548, P2697, P2774, P2819.