Editor’s Report

N2461=07-0331, Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++, contains the working draft for the standard, with the following changes made since the post-Toronto Working Draft, N2369=07-0229:

• N2170, Universal Character Names in Literals
• N2431, A Name for the Null Pointer: nullptr
• N2437, Explicit Conversion Operator -- changed "boolean-converted" to "contextually converted to bool", as suggested by Mike Miller
• N2429, Concurrency Memory Model -- restructured, slightly reworded
• N2442, Raw and Unicode String Literals
• N2439, Extending Move Semantics to *this
• LWG Issues 660, 488, 577
• N2434, Standard Library Applications for Explicit Conversion Operators
• N2071, Iostream Manipulators for Convenient Extraction and Insertion of struct tm Objects -- also made aggressive editorial changes to [std.manip] and [ext.manip] so that their requirements make sense.
• N2401, Code Conversion Facets for the Standard C++ Library
• N2427, C++ Atomic Types and Operations
• N2440, Abandoning a Process -- reorganized somewhat. Also moved one paragraph in description of atexit into description of exit.
• N2436, Small Allocator Fix-ups
• N2408, Simple Numeric Access
• N2423, Recommendations for Resolving Issues re [rand]
• N2409, Proposed Resolutions for the Outstanding Issues in Chapter 28: Regular Expresions Library
• N2422, Diagnostics Issues

My thanks to the following people, who pointed out typographical, linguistic, logical, and syntactic errors throughout various versions of the working drafts:

• Beman Dawes
• Hans Boehm
• Howard Hinnant
• John Maddock
• Lawrence Crowl
• Martin Sebor
• Matt Austern
• Mike Miller
• P.J. Plauger
• Pablo Halpern

My apologies to anyone whose name didn’t get on this list. Any omissions are entirely accidental.