[boost] Re: Proposal: rational numbers class

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-12-06 11:41:57

>     I'm not sure that comparisons with the existing standard library hold
>     up all that well -- consider the joy that is allocators ;->
>
>     Kevlin

Unfortunately, the allocator requirements got scaled back so much,
almost literally at the last minute, that they aren't nearly so
useful as they could have been.