-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Paul A Bristow

| -----Original Message----- | From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org | Subject: RE: [boost] Re: Re: Typeof: Review result | | It is not something one slaps together just to get their | name in lights (to me at least). A boost library makes you go | "Wow". if it doesn't make you go "Wow" it doesn't belong in boost.

[Paul A Bristow Writes:]

WOW! - What a elistist view!

Nothing WOW about STATIC_ASSERT (for example) - but not just useful but invaluable.

[Brian Braatz Writes:] 1- I was stating how I PERSONALLY felt about the issue. 2- The problem with thinking in the "wow" paradigm, is that is relative. STATIC_ASSERT has a wow factor to it for many. For some it does not.

IMO Boost library is about USEFULNESS and QUALITY.

[Brian Braatz Writes:] Add "efficiency" and you just described where the "wow" comes from :)

Quality code that starts by peer review AND because it is well exercised by lots of users on lots of different environments, and is amended often, so is likely to be as correct as can be and as portable as practical.

[Brian Braatz Writes:] Yes

And nobody gets their names in lights - just a bucket load of hassle manipulating their code for all the non-compliant compilers.

Paul

[Brian Braatz Writes:] HAHAHAH The underlying truth shows itself :).