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title: "Chapter 10 Outlook: Introduction of C++20"
type: book-en-us
order: 10
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# Chapter 10 Outlook: Introduction of C++20

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C++20 seems to be an exciting update.
For example, as early as C++11, the `Concept`, 
which was eager to call for high-altitude but ultimately lost, is now on the line.
The C++ Organizing Committee decided to vote to finalize C++20 with many proposals, 
such as **Concepts**/**Module**/**Coroutine**/**Ranges**/ and so on.
In this chapter we'll take a look at some of the important features that 
C++20 will introduce.

## Concept

Concept is a further enhancement to C++ template programming. 
In simple terms, the concept is a compile-time feature.
It allows the compiler to evaluate template parameters at compile time, 
greatly enhancing our experience with template programming in C++.
When programming with templates, we often encounter a variety of heinous errors.
This is because we have so far been unable to check and limit template parameters.
For example, the following two lines of code can cause a lot of 
almost unreadable compilation errors:

```cpp
#include <list>
#include <algorithm>
int main() {
    std::list<int> l = {1, 2, 3};
    std::sort(l.begin(), l.end());
    return 0;
}
```

The root cause of this code error is that `std::sort` must provide 
a random iterator for the sorting container, otherwise it will not be used, 
and we know that `std::list` does not support random access.
In the conceptual language, the iterator in `std::list` does not satisfy 
the constraint of the concept of random iterators in `std::sort`.
After introducing the concept, we can constrain the template parameters 
like this:

```cpp
template <typename T>
requires Sortable<T> // Sortable is a concept
void sort(T& c);
```

abbreviate as:

```cpp
template<Sortable T> // T is a Sortable typename
void sort(T& c)
```

Even use it directly as a type:

```cpp
void sort(Sortable& c); // c is a Sortable type object
```

Let's look at a practical example.

TODO

## Module

TODO

## Contract

TODO

## Range

TODO

## Coroutine

TODO

## Conclusion

In general, I finally saw the exciting features of Concepts/Ranges/Modules in C++20.
This is still full of charm for a programming language that is already in its thirties.

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## Further Readings

- [Why Concepts didn't make C++17？](http://honermann.net/blog/2016/03/06/why-concepts-didnt-make-cxx17/)
- [C++11/14/17/20 Compiler Support](http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support)
- [C++ History](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/history)

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