
"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:20050423224553.M84538@crystalclearsoftware.com... | On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:32:22 +0200, Thorsten Ottosen wrote | > 5. variant | | Is variant used widely enough to spend the time to standardize? maybe not. | > 6. iostreams | | Agree on this too. | | Should we be considering some of the new collection types: circular_buffer, | mutli_array, multi_index, ptr_containers? I asked abuot ptr_containers and the answer was "not yet". | Or are the uses too esoteric for | standarization? probably. I wouldn't write any proposal before hearing what the committee thinks; In Lillehammer we rejected a policy-based smart pointer and it should never have gotten that far; I mean, David H. spent a lot of time writing the proposal and that time could have been saved. | What about serialization -- it's a big library, but really | important. people are working on a proposal about reflection for C++0x which would give automatic serialization; so we'd better wait with this. | --> number types (unlimited / fixed point) unlimited types where also rejected on the grouns it serves too few people compared to how hard it is to implement. -Thorsten