[boost] Re: Re: Typeof: Review result

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-06 18:53:12

Brian Braatz wrote:

> Here is an idea: what-cha think- We should add a "Wow" factor to the
> lib review template.
>
> I dunno, maybe something like
>
> "Rate the WOW factor of this library:(1-5)"
>
> (now that I have made the suggestion, here comes the controversy
> (grin))
>
> the question then becomes what if a library, gets all 1's. Does it
> still get accepted? I say no, there are plenty of "YET-ANOTHER-X" libraries
> out there already.
>
> I say, (more controversy) that something can have a semi-boring
> functional use, but it's implementation, at the very least should have
> some "Wow" in it.

Most people seems to agree we need a bigint library. Somehow I'm skeptical we
can find one with a WOW factor above 2. ;-)

Jonathan