Re: [boost] (corrected) review of optional library

2002-12-13 Thread Fernando Cacciola
- Original Message - From: "Dave Gomboc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Boost Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:19 PM Subject: [boost] (corrected) review of optional library > Adjusted at five poi

Re: [boost] (corrected) review of optional library

2002-12-13 Thread Peter Dimov
From: "Dave Gomboc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Conversion from T' to T is straightforward except when the value of type > T' is nil. In this case, the developer may want to throw, > default-construct the value of T, or assert. I don't see why would anyone want a default-constructed T to be returned

[boost] (corrected) review of optional library

2002-12-12 Thread Dave Gomboc
Adjusted at five points; please ignore the previous one. -- Forwarded message -- At this point in time, I vote to reject the library. My vote is based upon a review of the interface and implementation in optional.hpp of the zip file I downloaded from the link posted by Fernando on