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ChadNauseam 6 hours ago

Adding a new method can change the behavior of C++ code as well due to templates. Does the standard library never add new methods because of that?

jjmarr 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes. All the time. Subscribe to the std-proposals mailing list and you'll see so many obvious improvements get rejected due to ABI compat guarantees.

umanwizard 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Adding a new method can change the behavior of C++ code as well due to templates.

Yes, but the code can be gated off with ifdefs to only be present when compiling for a particular version of the standard.