Recently, a C++ committee meeting happened in Wroclaw. The safety study group (SG23) spent almost three days processing papers, and in this discussion, The growing interest in C++ safety is caused by the frequent classification of C++ among memory-unsafe programming language, as expressed in multiple official documents from different US agencies,,. The latter, in particular, …

This code has been compiling for the last several years, despite the fact we have the perfect tool to make this foolish code stop compiling. Adding an ampersand at the end of every copy-assignment and move-assignment operator (or operators of the form <op>=). Why isn’t this best practice already? Or if it is, why isn’t …