LEWG Policies

Policies

Policies are described in SD-9, and determine rules and guidelines for proposals suggesting new utilities to the standard library.

The process of proposing, modifying or removing a policy is described in: "P2267R1: Library Evolution Policies"

Topics for Policy Discussion in Tokyo 2024

• [[nodiscard]] policy
• noexcept (first discussion)

Topics for Policy Discussion in St. Louis 2024

• explicit constructors

Topics for Policy Discussion in Wrocław (tentative)

• Allocators guidelines

Topics for Policy Discussion in Hagenberg (tentative)

• noexcept
  • P3313R0: Impacts of noexept on ARM table based exception metadata
  • P3318R0: Throwing violation handlers, from an application programming perspective
  • P3155R0: noexcept policy for SD-9 (The Lakos Rule)
  • P3085R2: noexcept policy for SD-9 (throws nothing)