Re: [boost] Re: C++ Standard Library proposal - Math functions for Statistics

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (gdr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-15 18:00:27

Hubert Holin <Hubert.Holin_at_[hidden]> writes:

[...]

| * overload versus template-based is NOT OK. 

Strongly agreed. 

| I strongly believe that the 
| benefits of genericity outweight, in this case, compatibility with C; if 

And the C-compatibility argument is bogus anyway:  If that proposal is
ever adopted in C, the functions won't have the same name since C has
no concept of overload, and will add suffix or prefix.

-- Gaby