On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Cory Nelson <phrosty@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
The C++ committee met last week. There was lot's of discussion and plans to markedly increase the size of the standard library. Boost has an important part to play; Bjarne Stroustrup hoped for "doubling the output of Boost." Herb Sutter is talking about an effort to shake libraries out of corporations and other large organizations. There seems be be a fresh infusion of energy, with quite a few new faces at the meeting.
Sounds great!
There should be a "Call for Library Proposals" in the committee's post-meeting mailing in roughly 10 days.
As someone who does not have the means to attend these meetings, I hope someone will be able to champion variant, optional, and intrusive.
Two of the most respected and prolific contributors to TR1, John Maddock and Peter Dimov, have never attended a single committee meeting. I've heard committee members ask for variant and optional by name. Not to mention a bunch of other boost libraries. Don't worry about finding champions - that's the easy part. Thanks, --Beman