carbon-lang/proposals

Proposals

This directory contains accepted proposals for the carbon-lang repository. For information about declined/deferred proposals, please view the proposal's original pull request.

For accepted proposals, where #### is the corresponding proposal's pull request:

• p####.md will contain the main proposal text.
• p#### may be present as an optional subdirectory for related files (for example, images).

Proposal list

• 0024 - Generics goals
• 0029 - Linear, rebase, and pull-request GitHub workflow
• 0042 - Create code review guidelines
• 0044 - Proposal tracking
• 0051 - Goals
• 0063 - Criteria for Carbon to go public
• 0074 - Change comment/decision timelines in proposal process
• 0083 - In-progress design overview
• 0107 - Code and name organization
• 0113 - Add a C++ style guide
• 0120 - Add idiomatic code performance and developer-facing docs to goals
• 0142 - Unicode source files
• 0143 - Numeric literals
• 0149 - Change documentation style guide
• 0157 - Design direction for sum types
• 0162 - Basic Syntax
• 0175 - C++ interoperability goals
• 0179 - Create a toolchain team.
• 0196 - Language-level safety strategy
• 0198 - Comments
• 0199 - String literals
• 0253 - 2021 Roadmap
• 0257 - Initialization of memory and variables
• 0285 - if/else
• 0301 - Principle: Errors are values
• 0339 - var statement
• 0340 - while loops
• 0353 - for loops
• 0415 - Syntax: return
• 0426 - Governance & evolution revamp
• 0438 - Functions
• 0444 - GitHub Discussions
• 0447 - Generics terminology
• 0524 - Generics overview
• 0538 - return with no argument
• 0540 - Remove Void
• 0555 - Operator precedence
• 0561 - Basic classes: use cases, struct literals, struct types, and future work
• 0601 - Operator tokens
• 0618 - var ordering
• 0623 - Require braces
• 0646 - Low context-sensitivity principle
• 0676 - :! generic syntax
• 0680 - And, or, not