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I'd like to see more projects consider this approach for updates.

Would anyone like to share other examples of this sort of thing (such as in other compilers or tools)?

We took a lot of inspiration from C++ and Java, both of which have some sort of flag that says “compile this against a particular version”.

Except C++03 isn't getting any more features added to it and neither is C++11 (which also use the year, not version number). 2015 edition will continue to get new features.

Yes, the non-2015 editions are direct analogues, but 2015 is special.

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