On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:35:18 +0100 "Domagoj Saric" <domagoj.saric@littleendian.com> wrote:
The whole point of the library is unlimited-size integers. I plan to improve the fixed-size integers, but they are not the primary focus of the library.
Then my acceptance vote remains a firm no...
Your point, and your vote, were quite clear the first time.
not just because such a library will not fulfil my needs or satisfy my notion of a 'proper implementation' but because you seem to fixed on the idea of adding a library to Boost that primarily suits your needs in spite of objective and validly argued demands from the Boost community.
I have yet to see any other objection to my focus on unlimited-size integers for an unlimited-size integer library.
Your 'whole point of the library' is exactly that, >your< point, I did not see any reviewer agreeing with you on that point.
I don't see that the point ever came up, suggesting that other reviewers had no objection to it.
All of this makes the library not Boost.XInt but ChadNelson.XInt...
I believe everyone on this list understands and agrees that he who creates the library and does all the work on it has the privilege of deciding its purpose. If you want DomagojSaric.XInt instead, you know how to get it.
And why exactly do you refuse to treat fixed-size integers 'properly and equally'?
I'm not well versed in debating terms, but that sounds like a straw man argument, since I've never done so. My position is, and remains, that fixed-size integers are not the primary purpose of an unlimited-length integer library, but that if I can find a way to make them work well, I will do so.
[...] The fact that you refuse to listen to advice, even such 'ancient truisms' as 'decoupling is always right', and even after your experience and/or knowledge has been shown as lacking, cements the no vote even more because, as Dave Abrahams said, the vote goes to the library and the maintainer...
You're obviously following only selected pieces of the discussion. In any case, you've done what you can to kill the library, you can drop the subject now. -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * *