The list of proposed changes to the core language and its libraries is extensive, but some of the changes are particularly interesting for us Perl developers: C++0x is about to embrace some old-time favorite features from Perl! Assuming the proposed changes are voted into the new standard, C++ developers will in a few years be able to take advantage of these cool features:
- The for_each keyword becomes part of the core language, to allow easy iteration over a function, of all elements of a sequence (see page 855). OK, not as cool as Perl's iteration over all elements of a list, but still quite useful.
- The Perl workhorse associative arrays, better known as hashes, become part of the C++ standard library (see page 794). The proposal goes further than Perl 5's hashes, by defining 4 different hash types. The 'unordered set' hash type looks an awfully lot like a Perl list.
- Regular expressions get their own, standardized library (see pages 1060-1095), where the well-known Perl functions s/// and m// find their equivalents in regex_replace, regex_search and regex_match .
