Eric Niebler writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
"Eric Niebler" <eric@boost-consulting.com> writes:
Is there interest in turning this into a BOOST_MIN/BOOST_MAX library?
I dunno. The mixed-type min/max problem is not a major issue for most people, is it?
IMO, it's a minor inconvenience. The dangling reference problem is more insidious, as the compiler won't catch it, but I've never been bitten by it, personally.
I'm pretty sure decltype/rvalue ref will give us everything we need to do it in C++0x with a real function template, so I'm leary of building macros for this purpose.
How long will it be before all the compilers Boost supports have decltype and rvalue-reference? ;-)
I'm not sure how I feel about it either. Maybe I'll whip something up, put it in the sandbox and leave it there.
</lurk> I'd favor having it in Boost. Boost is not only a collection of useful libraries, it's also a collection of _good examples_ and _educational_ libraries, and I think Eric's macros are both of the latter. People don't _have_ to use them. :-) <lurk> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Steffen, Ph.D. Software Engineer IV Disobey this command! Numerica Corporation ph (970) 419-8343 x27 fax (970) 223-6797 - Douglas Hofstadter dgsteffen@numerica.us