[boost] Re: Proposal for improved versions of some std function objects

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-01 10:19:30

On Thu, 1 May 2003 11:01:05 +0200, Matthias Troyer
<troyer_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>I would like to propose to add those function objects to the 
>functional.hpp header of Boost, since this header already contains 
>other improvements to Sec. 20.3 of the standard.

Sorry if this reply is a little terser than it should be but I really
don't have time for a longer talk. Hopefully the point will be clear
despite the scarcity of words: let us not imitate the poor
partitioning of some standard headers. We already have to include
something like <algorithm> to get a simple std::min/max. It wouldn't
be exciting to have a similar situation for functional.hpp (even more
so because of all the type-traits and compiler workarounds stuff that
it involves)

If I had to choose a title for this, I would opt for "Beware of
logical cohesion" ;-)

Genny.