On 08/02/2013 08:09 PM, Brian Smith wrote: > 2. It is reasonable to expect that std::whatever works as the C++ standard > says it should. It isn't reasonable to expect mozilla::Whatever to work > exactly like std::whatever. And, often, mozilla::Whatever isn't actually > the same as std::whatever.
Why is this a problem? People should never assume mozilla::* is the same as std::*, unless they verify in the documentation that it is. Sometimes our documentation makes promises of compatibility (or approximate compatibility, or common-case compatibility). Usually it doesn't. Caveat lector. Reading documentation, it seems to me, has to be a baseline requirement for all Mozilla contributors. If a contributor isn't reading documentation about the classes/structures/algorithms he uses in the patches he writes, I'm scared. (Which is not to say that doc-reading is always the solution, as sometimes our docs are incoherent, scattered, or non-existent. But for this new stuff, the docs come with the code, and are a prerequisite to landing. I think we've held that line pretty well. So that's a legacy problem not relevant here.) Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
