Re: [boost] Report from Berlin C++ Standards Committee meeting

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-13 09:32:49

On Apr 13, 2006, at 3:20 AM, Andy Little wrote:
>   A major reason given
> by the committee AFAICS (in GUI case) was that the committee doesnt  
> have enough
> time to deal with it.

This is not exactly correct. The committee does not have enough time  
to *design* a GUI library, nor any other library. Besides, you  
wouldn't want a library designed by committee, would you?

If someone steps up with a proposal for a GUI library, the committee  
will review it.

> Yet there seems to be adequate time to discuss the
> addition of more complexities to the language itself.

These are different groups within the C++ committee. Libraries are  
handled by the Library Working Group, language extensions are handled  
by the Evolution Working Group. Discussing language extensions rarely  
takes away time from the discussion of new/improved libraries, except  
where language changes can have a large effect on how libraries are  
written (e.g., concepts and move semantics).

        Doug