[boost] Interval Library Accepted

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-24 07:03:54

The Interval Library from Hervé Bronnimann, Guillaume Melquiond, and 
Sylvain Pion has been accepted by Boost.

During the formal review, much discussion occurred regarding comparison. 
The contentious issues were resolved by a proposal from Doug Gregor. The 
library's developers are in the process of applying this proposal to the 
library, and will report back to the list if any serious problems are 
found.

I'd like to reemphasize a comment at the very end of the review from Doug 
Gregor to the effect that comparison polices are likely to come up as 
issues again and again, so the rationale for the library's comparison 
policy choices should be very carefully documented.

A number of minor issues were reported; the developers generally posted 
plans for dealing with these issues as they came up on the list.

The one other issue worth mentioning is the question "is the library 
generic enough?" At least in theory, it might be possible to push the 
applicability of the library beyond arithmetic domains, broadening it 
enough to cover other pairs such as ranges. No consensus emerged as to 
whether or not this would be a good idea or how to do it, and the library 
developers prefer to concentrate on the current domain modulo the 
comparison issues.

Thanks to all those who posted comments, with particular thanks to those 
posting full reviews.

--Beman Dawes, formal review manager