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C++26

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C++26 is the informal name for the version of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 14882 standard for the C++ programming language that follows C++23. The current working draft of this version is N4981.[1]

Features

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Changes that have been accepted into C++26 include:

Language

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  • Unevaluated strings
  • Adding @, $, and ` to the basic character set
  • constexpr cast from void*
  • User-generated static_assert messages
  • Placeholder variables with no name
  • Pack indexing
  • Attributes for structured bindings
  • Erroneous behavior for uninitialized reads
  • = delete("reason");
  • Variadic friends
  • constexpr placement new
  • Structured binding declaration as a condition
  • Ordering of constraints involving fold expressions
  • Deleting a pointer to an incomplete type should be ill-formed
  • Structured bindings can introduce a pack
  • Allowing exception throwing in constant-evaluation
  • constexpr structured bindings and references to constexpr variables
  • Oxford variadic comma
  • Removing deprecated array comparisons

Library

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  • Hashing support for std::chrono value classes
  • std::is_within_lifetime
  • Native handles in file streams
  • Interfacing string streams with std::string_view
  • Interfacing std::bitset with std::string_view
  • More constexpr for <cmath> and <complex>
  • Adding the new 2022 SI prefixes on ratios: std::quecto, std::ronto, std::ronna, and std::quetta
  • std::copyable_function
  • std::submdspan()
  • <debugging>: Debugging Support
  • <linalg>: A free function linear algebra interface based on the BLAS
  • Added tuple protocol to std::complex
  • views::concat
  • Concatenation of strings and string views
  • std::ranges::generate_random
  • Printing blank lines with std::println()
  • std::formatter<std::filesystem::path>
  • Saturation arithmetic with, among others, std::add_sat, std::div_sat
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References

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  1. ^ "Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++" (PDF). Open Standards. ISO/IEC. 2024-04-16.