Re: [boost] Re: coding guidelines

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-05 16:52:02

At 03:01 PM 7/5/2001, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >BTW: how did the standard commitee come up with their convention ?

The basics were inherited from C language.  Then the C++ committee voted, 
several times, on the C++ version.  I think there were 4 or 5 schemes 
proposed.  The current scheme won the first vote by a very slim 
margin.  But as people used it, they found that it was a lot better than 
chaos,  so it won a later second vote by a very wide margin.

--Beman