auto falls under "implicit typing". Clarified this.

And we've been able to use a lot of C++0x for a while now:

http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

Visual Studio 2010 has about half the C++11 features (obviously it came out before the full standard was finished). Next release I guess will add more.

Or maybe the next service pack. Thinking of VS2008 feature pack/SP1 which added TR1.

And status for clang: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

With the C++98 standard it took almost a decade to get decent support in mainstream compilers.

This time it's different. Most of C++0x is already implemented in GCC and MSVC. However the implemented subsets are a bit different, but most of it is already there. The last time I checked, MSVC had lots of missing stuff in the standard library. In particular, threads and clocks were missing.

I've been writing C++0x with GCC for two years now.