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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: We have a new standard!
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2025 14:04:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 08:40:47 -0500
Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wibbled:
>Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>
>> On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 20:08:00 +0200
>> Paavo Helde <eesnimi@osa.pri.ee> wibbled:
>>>On 04.01.2025 04:06, Sam wrote:
>>>> void my_algorithm(algorithm_info_t &) throws(AlgoThrownClasses)
>>>
>>>That's the first good idea from you in this discussion. I still do not 
>>>see much point in exception specifications, but such a typedef would at 
>>>least make life easier for me on this Alternate Earth.
>>>
>>>PS. Nowadays they prefer `using` instead of `typedef`.
>>
>> I never understood the point of that. Why not increase the semantic scope
>> of "typedef" instead of having 2 keywords that in a lot of circumstances
>> do the same thing?
>
>Because using is a nicer to read?

Who knows. The C++ committee certainly has form on this - typename replaced 
class in template definitions when they realised 10 years after everyone else
that reusing class in that particular case was somewhat confusing.