RFC: 8247976: Update HotSpot Style Guide for C++14 adoption

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Kim,

Okay, i understand. I’ll wait until we are at the right stage for
discussing these changes.

Thank you,

Thomas

On Fri 24. Jul 2020 at 11:42, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:

> > On Jul 23, 2020, at 7:00 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > (note: original mail was lost to us because of the hotspot-dev outage,
> so I am answering to what I read in the ML archive:
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2020-June/042247.html
> )
>
> Drat!  That was exceptionally bad outage timing for this project.
>
> > Hi Kim,
> >
> > Thank you for your work, this is a good and clean read! And I also think
> this was long overdue.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > I'd like to make an argument for using namespaces though. You write: […]
>
> With this update to the Style Guide I've been mostly trying to
> maintain the status quo (though with more explanation in some cases)
> for existing usage.  In this round I'm trying to limit changes to
>
> (1) an initial set of modifications describing C++11/14 usage,
> (2) re-homing the document, and
> (3) describing a process for updating it (which has been sorely lacking).
>
> As you read through this thread you'll have seen several places where
> a desire for some change is noted but is not being addressed in this
> set of changes.  I'd like to do the same for namespaces.  I'd be happy
> to see a discussion about the use of namespaces once some version of
> this document is in its new home and includes the initial C++14 stuff.
>
>
>