[EpicEng]

That's not the point. The point is that, when you get it, you won't encounter a list of breaking changes and your code will continue to work.

[ernst_klim]

>you won't encounter a list of breaking changes and your code will continue to work.

Sure, that's why my gstreamermm app refused to build when I switched to --std=c++17

[EpicEng]

Here's the list: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6399615/what-breaking-ch...

Was it one of those? If not then the fault was with your code or the implementation, not the spec. The language itself is very good at maintaining backward compatibility.

[ernst_klim]

>you won't encounter a list of breaking changes

>list of breaking changes

Yeap, some shit with smart pointers in glibmm, didn't investigated much.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1438766

[EpicEng]

>C++17 will remove support for old-style exception specifications

Right, you've been told for some time that those were deprecated. At some point deprecated features go away.