If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.

And no, I'm not a walking C++ dictionary. I do not keep every technical detail in my head at all times. If I did that, I would be a much poorer programmer. I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

A program that has not been tested does not work.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.