2006/9/16, Paul A Bristow <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com>:
| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Garland | Sent: 15 September 2006 15:29 | To: boost@lists.boost.org | Subject: Re: [boost] [tr2]Add Combination against | std::permutation. HELP! | | Ben Bear wrote: | > Hi, all! | > | > I wrote a proposal for TR2 about add combination against | > std::permutation. It's here: | > http://www.bxmy.org/article/tr2/combi_tr2.txt | > | > And the source code: | > http://www.bxmy.org/article/tr2/combination.hpp | > http://www.bxmy.org/article/tr2/test.cpp | > | > | > I need HELP! Because my bad ability in English, can anybody edit | > this report? And can anybody commit this proposal to WG21? | | I'm not a member of the committee, but do know a little | about how the process | works. And I'm afraid you've missed the pre-meeting mailing | for the Portland | meeting in Oct. In all likelihood that means it might be | very difficult to | get your proposal on the agenda....which means it likely | won't make it into | tr2 given that Portland is the cutoff for new proposals. | | Still you shouldn't give up. This looks very useful to me | and would be a nice | contribution to Boost even if it doesn't make TR2...so read on. | | > One year ago, I wrote a email to the libstdc++ group for the | > combination, and they said that I should commit this to | the Boost. I | > wrote a email to this mailing list one month ago, but | nobody replies me. | > Maybe I should write the proposal for TR2. Now I wrote a draft. | | Sorry to hear that. Sometimes there's alot of email and it | takes a bit of | persistence to get attention. I would hope that John | Maddock and Paul Bristow | could evaluate your proposal as they've been working on some | math and | statistical interfaces.
I noted this item some time and thought it looked a useful addition, and still seems so (though not widely useful?). But I am not nearly well qualified enough to judge and review the document - especially in the version at http://www.bxmy.org/article/combination.pdf ;-)
However, I sense it is 'orthogonal' to the maths and stats work (alpha release Real Soon Now!) that John Maddock has done (with some minor input from me) so I am doubtful about much synergy between the two.
I fear that Jeff is correct that you have missed the time-limit for TR2, but you can still submit it as a WG21 paper - TR3 may eventually exist. And I would still encourage you to submit for Boost. The 1st step is to dump your files in the Boost files vault http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/ .
Thanks for showing me the way. I'll ready to submit for Boost. Eh, it will be a little slow for me. I don't know well about this community. It's pity that I'm late for TR2.