Re: [boost] Why use Boost?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-03 07:45:53

"Andy Little" <andy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "David Abrahams"  wrote
>> "Andy Little"  writes:
>
>> I think that happens in part because people don't appreciate what they
>> can get out of doing the documentation work.
>
> :-) :-)
>
> David, David, David. I just fell off my chair laughing!. Who had to start Your 
> documentation for implicit_cast which has been lying around waiting to be done 
> for years ?

You _almost_ have a point, but don't forget, I just put that into
Boost as an implementation detail of something else I was doing.  I
thought that maybe, someday, it would make sense to release it for
public consumption.  It was just a question of how much time I had to
get a different job done, nothing more.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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