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by thechao 2216 days ago
The real power of concepts was the “concept_map” construct. Gaby & Bjarne wanted predicated checking instead of structural checking. Without structural checking there’s no “natural” way in C++ syntax to specify a concept_map. The problem is that predicate checking isn’t that great.

I can send you the turd of a PhD thesis that was left after my doctorate was bombed by the removal of concepts from C++0x.