Apparently, consteval
is going to be a keyword in C++20. The cppreference page for it is currently blank. What is it going to be and how does it relate to
It declares immediate functions, that is, functions that must be evaluated at compile time to produce a constant. (It used to be spelled constexpr!
in a previous revision of the paper.) In contrast, constexpr
functions may be evaluated at compile time or run time, and need not produce a constant in all cases.
The adopted paper is P1073R3, which is not yet publicly available, but a previous revision is available and the introductory (motivation and high-level description) portion is about the same (except that the "Source Locations" section is deleted in R3).