David Abrahams wrote:
Maybe because Robert was listing points upon which the proposal didn't fare well but that he thought were worthy of consideration? You're not helping your case at all by claiming everything points to bias. It just looks paranoid.
By the way, who was it who just called and hung up??? :oD
Maybe, not but it's not a long way from what you *actually wrote* to "evil spirits." Starting from "conflict of interest" connected to lobbying and voting and then proceeding to a suggestion that people are claiming something they don't "really really believe" and "convenient" forgetting of crucial facts, there's a lot in there to take as disparaging.
Yeah, "conflict of interest" isn't the word because there's not a real "interest" there, but rather a mere subjective opinion. But then let me ask this again: if binary compatibility is assigned such a weight on shared_ptr, then why isn't it a concern for other obvious candidates in the standard library, such as strings and vectors? Shouldn't we measure those guys by the same measure? Again, binary compatibility is a very useful feature, but it should only be assigned so much importance.
You bet it ain't proper, whatever syntagm means. What the heck's a syntagm?
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Library design and appreciation is subjective; that makes it hard to stay unbiased towards a particular design. I know I am biased myself, albeit not to the point of being unreasonable.
Think again. Your last post was unreasonable.
Naturally I'd believe others might be as well, and I don't think I dispense offense in saying that.
Whether you dispense offense is in the ear of the listener, and I'm hearing it.
Maybe you are particularly sensitive towards yours truly.
Absolutely correct. As I said, you can't design that out of the system, so you'd better learn to work with it.
I think that is fine. Actually I perfectly realize I am lobbying right now, and having a subjective opinion... Andrei