Re: [boost] Standardization of quaternion, octonion, and special function libs?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-24 10:46:47

At 10:14 AM 5/24/2002, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >Thus the commitee should, when deciding upon supporting features which 
are
 >not purely in the software-engineering domain, not take the number of
 >current
 >users of the specific feature into account but the number of people that
 >actually need that functionality.

The committee, unless it gets input from numerics experts, doesn't have any 
way of knowing how many people need the functionality.

That's why, however imperfectly, some of us are trying to reach out and 
interest more numerics people in participating.

--Beman