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Paper Forwarding Checklist

Inbal Levi edited this page Mar 23, 2026 · 7 revisions

The following should be reviewed before taking a forwarding poll:

  • Why this facility should go into the standard library?
  • Discussion of prior art?
  • Examples showing the limitations solved
  • Field experience?
    • Implementation experience?
      • Was implemented in a major lib distribution?
      • Were the tests run?
      • Is there's an avaliable link to experiment with?
    • Usage experience?
    • Deployment experience?
  • Performance considerations?
  • Support for "std::format", "hash", and allocators (if required)?
  • Feature test macro?
  • constexpr?
  • Freestanding?
  • Changes Library Evolution previously requested?
  • Wording?

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