From: alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com   
      
   On 15.01.2012 14:17, Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote:   
   > "Alf P. Steinbach"  writes:   
   >   
   [snipped low s/n part]   
   >   
   >>> IMHO, the problem isn't choosing between alternate models better suited to   
   >>> the current days, it is finding one which provides a path of transition   
   >>> from the current one without impacting those who depend on it.   
   >>   
   >> That sentence sounds as if finding a better way would be somehow   
   >> difficult.   
   >   
   > I'll try to be clearer.  Finding a better model is easy.  Finding a better   
   > model for which there is a easy path of transition for those who use the   
   > current model isn't.   
      
   I'm sorry but that is wrong and highly misleading.   
      
   C++11 does use a better model for the other new prefixes.   
      
   Using that model for "u8" would not make any transition harder.   
      
   On the contrary, not using that model is, to the extent that lack of   
   type checking is, a problem for a transition to C++11, in Windows.   
      
   Contrary to your claim, finding a better model was trivial: it was all   
   around that issue, already adopted for the similar prefixes.   
      
      
   >  Deciding to have an hard transition for those who use   
   > the current model isn't either   
      
   I can't make head or tails of that, sorry.   
      
      
   Cheers & hth.,   
      
   - Alf   
      
      
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