> Couldn't find anything on it in bugzilla, and I don't think it's worth > the effort. IIRC, Herb Sutter and another guy spent 6 months to get it > right in the EDG front end (and Herb originally wanted to throw export > for templates out of the standard alltogether). > > -- > Tarjei
The implementation of export was done by Steve Adamczyk, John Spicer, and Daveed Vandevoorde - also known as Edison Design Group (EDG). Herb Sutter and Tom Plum wrote a committee paper entitled "Why We Can't Afford Export" [1]. The paper points out that it took EDG 1.5 years of planning and 3 person years to implement export. EDG estimates elapsed time for other implementers approximately 2.5 to 3 years, start to finish. [1] http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2003/n1426.pdf Regards, Ryan Mansfield
