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by csmpltn 1636 days ago
> "Contributing to the spec, creating a very widely used set of CMake utilities, and being a widely enjoyed speaker not enough for you?"

No, this is clearly not enough to get shit accepted into the C++ standard. As evident by the fact that none of OP's ideas made it into the standard. Why should any of that matter?

I'm sure OP is not alone here, by the way. I submit there must be thousands of amazing ideas proposed by amazing people that don't end up being accepted into the standard for a myriad of reasons. Get over it.

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> As evident by the fact that none of OP's ideas made it into the standard

Yet another person on here who didn't read the article.

> Multi-argument indexing made it into the C++23 standard, and so did std::byteswap. That’s my legacy I guess.