wishes-for-the-standard.md

What I wish would be standard

Inheriting from primitive data types

Primitive data types are the fastest, best supported types in the language. Many times I've wished to adapt some of them for particular use cases and had to pay the big cost of wrapping them, pure busy work.

Why can't you inherit from unions?

Why can't you have the reinterpret_casts allowed in the language for constexprs?

By the way, how do you determine the endianness in a pure C++ 11, portable way?

Obtaining the address of the code that would be called in a virtual function call

Discussion of this item got promoted to its own article: vtable freeze.

Being able to set the constructors, operators and destructors

One can program constructors, ..., to do whatever one pleases, however, if our programs can build at runtime an implementation for them, their non-setting introduces one level of indirection