Re: [boost] Comments about N2320

Howard Hinnant wrote:

Here's an interesting read on the subject:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2455.pdf

For those of you not familiar with the language of standardization, this is an official letter from the C committee to the C++ committee saying: "Thank you for removing cancellation. Now we want you to promise that you will not even discuss bringing it back."

I was pretty surprised by N2455 and figured that there's a missing context, without which it doesn't make sense to the uninformed.