"Rob Stewart" wrote
Andy Little wrote
I am pleased to formally announce that the Typeof library has been accepted into Boost.
Congratulations Arkadiy and Peder.
There were 3 reviews, all in favour of accepting the library.
While I'm not questioning the value of accepting this library specifically, doesn't it seem less than ideal to accept a library that -- for whatever reasons -- garnered only three reviews?
I based my decision simply on the fact that the functionality is (though often discussed on comp.std.c++) sorely lacking in the current language, which is hopefully to change if the decltype proposal is passed. IMO the number of reviews is often an exponential function of the complexity of the library ( The 'bike shed' syndrome). As well as representing functionality not currently available in the core language, this library uses two of the most complicated features of boost, mpl and the preprocessor, which I would guess dramatically cuts down the number of boosters who found it easy to understand the implementation, (or perahps even the purpose of the library) and therefore felt able to submit a review.( OTOH Take a look inside the lambda library and see the library specific workarounds curently being used to emulate this type of functionality.) As Jonathan Turkanis stated many are busy working on the next release, which also has an impact. Finally of course, the review manager has absolute power and is unelected. Perhaps this is a weakness in the current scheme. Personally though I think that the current scheme is practical and works ok, and any modifications in that direction would result in it becoming more difficult to recruit review managers. regards Andy Little