Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-28 Thread David Abrahams
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > I don't know about others, but when I read that three other pointers have > been removed from the proposal to make it palatable and that there's word > about a fourth, I start to doubt that

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Andrei Alexandrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There's also a contradiction in there. The document nicely continues "One of > > the reasons shared_ptr has been so successful is that in the

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-28 Thread Peter Dimov
From: "Andrei Alexandrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > The smart pointer proposal is unconvincing to me. This, of course, comes at > no surprise. There's some conjecture in the reference document at > http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm such as "The support for > custom deallocato

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread Beman Dawes
At 05:47 PM 1/27/2003, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >Q. Why doesn't shared_ptr provide (your pet feature here)? >A. Because (your pet feature here) would mandate a reference counted >implementation or a linked list implementation, or some other specific >implementation. This is not the intent. > >Th

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread Greg Colvin
At 05:13 PM 1/27/2003, David B. Held wrote: >"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >b14fuc$hh0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b14fuc$hh0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> b14cq2$2km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b14cq2$2km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread Greg Colvin
At 03:47 PM 1/27/2003, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> At 04:25 PM 1/24/2003, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: >> >> >Just out of curiosity, which boost libraries are likely to be proposed >to >> >the committee?

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread David B. Held
"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b14fuc$hh0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b14fuc$hh0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Andrei Alexandrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > b14cq2$2km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b14cq2$2km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > [...] > > This is yet another bad PR move, bu

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread Edward Diener
"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message b14cq2$2km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b14cq2$2km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > At 04:25 PM 1/24/2003, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > > > > >Just out of c

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread William E. Kempf
Andrei Alexandrescu said: > "Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... >> At 04:25 PM 1/24/2003, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: >> >> >Just out of curiosity, which boost libraries are likely to be >> proposed > to >> >the committee? >> >> See http:/

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
"Beman Dawes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 04:25 PM 1/24/2003, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > > >Just out of curiosity, which boost libraries are likely to be proposed to > >the committee? > > See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-25 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:50 PM 1/24/2003, Gennaro Prota wrote: >On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:43:28 -0500, Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>A "full proposal" must include proposed wording for the actual standardese >>to go in the TR, as well as the usual supporting material. (Note that the >>committee may not

Re: [boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-25 Thread Beman Dawes
At 04:25 PM 1/24/2003, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: >Just out of curiosity, which boost libraries are likely to be proposed to >the committee? See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1397.html --Beman ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http:

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-25 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:50:42 +0100, Gennaro Prota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Is there any danger than "that" :-) Genny. ___ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-24 Thread Gennaro Prota
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:43:28 -0500, Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A "full proposal" must include proposed wording for the actual standardese >to go in the TR, as well as the usual supporting material. (Note that the >committee may not act on the proposal right away, or may request revi

[boost] Re: Deadline for the Standard Library Technical Report

2003-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Yasskin
Just out of curiosity, which boost libraries are likely to be proposed to the committee? On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:43:28 -0500, Beman Dawes wrote: > The deadline for submissions of full proposals for C++ Standard Library > Technical Report is the committee meeting April 7-11 in Oxford, UK. ___