{"id":5414,"date":"2018-04-02T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T07:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/april-fool-s-joke-raw-pointers-removed-from-c\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T07:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T07:37:03","slug":"april-fool-s-joke-raw-pointers-removed-from-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernescpp.com\/index.php\/april-fool-s-joke-raw-pointers-removed-from-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about “Raw Pointers Removed from C++”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five bloggers have teamed up worldwide to deliver an April Fool’s joke to readers about eliminating pointers.<\/span> The response to the five articles was huge and ranged from “it took so long” to “that can not be true”. <\/span> Here again, the truths, half-truths, and untruths: No New New: Raw Pointers Removed from C++.<\/a>  You can even read this post in German <\/a>or in Russian<\/a>. 
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First of all, who are the five bloggers?<\/span><\/p>\n

     Arne Mertz (Simplify C ++<\/a>)
     Simon Brand (Tartan Llama<\/a>)
     Jonathan Boccara (Fluent C ++<\/a>)
     Bartolomiej Filipek (Bartek’s coding blog<\/a>)<\/span>
     Rainer Grimm (Modern C ++<\/a>)<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Once more very clearly: pointers will not be deprecated in C ++ 20 or removed in C ++ 23.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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