Re: [boost] Review: Special functions, Quaternions, Octonions

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-18 11:51:17

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Powell" <Gary.Powell_at_[hidden]>
>   I have mixed thoughts about this next suggestion, and that is to
implement
> a member function "swap" and a specialization in the namespace "std" of
> swap. Partly because I'm not sure that for the types, float, etc it really
> makes much difference, and partly because for a user defined type there
are
> already a host of issues with std::swap etc. (there is plenty of previous
> discussion and I don't really want to restart that.)

And there are active issues in the core and library working groups of the
standards committee on this topic. See
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-active.html#225 (lib 225)
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/lwg-active.html#229 (lib 229)
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_active.html#229 (core 229)

-Dave