(j3.2006) N2147 - User survey wrapup

[Van Snyder]

Stan made spreadsheets to coordinate the data about each suggestion.
Look for 04-*.xls and 05-*.xls files in meetings 167-171.

We should filter the chaff from N2147 before we start spreadsheets.

On Tue, 2018-02-06 at 16:16 -0500, Steve Lionel wrote:
> Hi, all...
> 
> You should have received a notice from ISO that N2147 is available. (If 
> not, it's linked from the WG5 site.) This is the final wrap-up of the 
> F202X feature survey I ran for the past several months. I'd like 
> everyone to look it over and we can have some discussions next week in 
> Vegas to start a list of what we'd like to see in the next standard. The 
> order of the ranked items changed a bit since the October snapshot but 
> not significantly so. Generic programming by far remains the most 
> popular idea.
> 
> On the large number of "other" suggestions, I made an attempt to 
> separate these into categories so as to make it a bit more manageable. 
> Some of them I may have not fully understood so they may not be sorted 
> properly, but overall I think it will help. I did notice that more than 
> one user asked for features already in the language, leaving me to 
> wonder what we can do to better publicize things.
> 
> I have the full copies of all the responses - I omitted some text from 
> responses that were very long. If there's a snippet that intrigues you, 
> let me know what it is and I'll provide more context if I have it.
> 
> Steve
> 
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