slices ; Stroustrup & libstdc++

[Nathan Myers]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:05:39PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Gerhard Wesp <gwesp@cosy.sbg.ac.at> writes:
> | > mentioned that the valarray classes, "were not designed very well.
> | > In fact, nobody tried to determine whether the final specification
> | > worked."
> | 
> |   indeed i'm starting to get this impression.
> 
> I submited a defect, a long time ago. It was considered NAD and
> classified as a request for extension -- what I think it is not.  If
> you feel that it is indeed a defect then I'll encourage you to send a
> note to the committee. You'll have my support.

You should know, before you start preparing a defect report -- and 
(one would hope!) doing the huge amount of work necessary to correct it
properly -- that the Library Working Group considers valarray<> to be
more or less a failed experiment, and is disinclined to add complexity
to something they would rather deprecate.

A better goal would be to choose an industrially successful library
such as Blitz++ or its offspring and (re-)specify it completely enough 
to adopt at the next round of standardization.

Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org