On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Lorenzo Caminiti <lorcaminiti@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis@gmail.com> wrote:
I (and maybe others as well who follow the same logic I follow) don't see a large enough gap between C++11 lambdas and Boost.Phoenix/Lambda/Bind function objects that merits being addressed by local functions. Until you can convince us that local functions are "absolutely necessary" and that C++ should have it because it makes certain programming paradigms/techniques possible, I'm afraid what you have is a solution that's looking for a problem.
1) I don't think I have to convince anyone. Following Boost process, I have first asked for interest in the library about ~1year ago plus all the reviewers have answered the question:
- What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? With that information I am confident that the review manager will be able to assess the library usefulness taking into consideration the opinion of /all/ the people that reviewed the library.
Actually, you kinda have to convince people -- especially now that questions have been raised by members of the community, both in the review and on this thread. There have been "non-inclusion" votes already sent in. I'll throw my hat into that side of the ring too now if it's not too late and too much work to write a review.
Noted. More than anything, I just want to let everyone know that I'm closely following this thread (and related threads) to help me make a decision on Local. I was hoping this discussion would also clarify the position Boost takes on similar libraries. However, clearly, whatever decision I make is going to be quite polarizing, and, honestly, I don't think it's a decision *I* should make; the community appears to be having difficulty coming to anything resembling a consensus :/ Personally, going into this review, I thought Local was a shoe-in for acceptance. But I feel like those against inclusion have brought up some very good points. - Jeff