Used paragraph numbers in filesystem.hpp refer to the C++17 standard
albert-github opened this issue · 3 comments
Might be a bit off topic.
In the current filsystem.hpp source code we see e.g.:
// 30.10.8 class path
class GHC_FS_API_CLASS path
Here the 30.10.8 is referring to the C++17 standard paragraph, though in:
- C++20 standard the paragraph is 29.11.7
- C++23 draft standard the paragraph is 29.11.6
Maybe a solution would be:
- to refer, in this case, to [fs.class.path]
- or mention at least that the numbers are derived from the C++17 standard
similar for the other mentioned paragraph numbers.
Yeah, a valid point, I'm unhappy with the now misleading paragraph numbers myself, even if I kept them in regard to the first sentence of the readme: "tightly following the C++17 standard with very few documented exceptions", but I understand that this is nothing more than a hint, and after adding C++20 support it gets kinda diffuse.
I think that switching to the identifier-like names e.g. [fs.class.path] might be the best way, and the test cases already use them as Catch2 tags to be able to select tests. Still I wouldn't schedule a release just with this, so a release will depend on other issues making a release necessary.
- I think indeed good idea to reference to the
[...]tags - it is definitely not worth a new release as it is just a minor problem for people reading the code (and most of the time these people will know about where to find the C++17 standard).