Re: [boost] Re: Math constants - updated.

From: Lassi A.Tuura (lassi.tuura_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-17 14:58:03

> I have nothing against physicists or other C++ programmers who find 
> templates and boost way too obscure or complex to use and choose to 
> stick with older techniques that they know how to use effectively. 
> [...] But what I like about boost a lot is that it adheres relatively 
> well to a core set of principles and idioms that fit very well with my 
> programming style. [...] I am against "polluting" boost with code that 
> compromises these principles, because it would re-introduce 
> difficulties that boost helps me avoid.

Do I read you correctly that you actually say templates are an 
essential part to every design in boost?  I must admit such an approach 
would never occur to me, I have always thought one picks a technique 
applicable to the problem, and sometimes it's the 100-year old version 
that does the best job.  "One hammer doesn't fit all screws" they say 
:)

Lassi
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