Hi, Noah Roberts wrote:
Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?
I do not believe it meets the need of a wide enough audience, no.
I still have to evaluate this library thoroughly, but I'm pretty sure that this kind of functionality pleases a quite large audience. Most people I know don't use compile-time unit checks right now, but they don't do it because they decided that it's not needed but because they either don't know about the possibility or don't know a good implementation. If a unit library would be included in Boost, this would be a major step towards unit-safe code for many of them because there would be no good reason not to write unit-safe code. People were able to work with raw pointers, too, but smart_ptr and pointer_container are just so much better than just "being careful" that this practice seems to diminish. I believe that the general need for this type of library is large enough to justify inclusion into Boost. Malte