Re: [boost] [review] promotion traits - review period extended untilApril 9.

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-07 05:55:15

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Tobias Schwinger
| Sent: 06 April 2006 18:26
| To: boost_at_[hidden]
| Subject: [boost] [review] promotion traits - review period 
| extended untilApril 9.
| 
| Dear users & members of Boost,
| 
| 
| I decided to extend the review period of the fast-track review for 
| Promotion Traits until April 9 because there were only three reviews 
| until now. 
| That is, you have another three days to submit your evaluation of the 
| proposed Boost software. 
| 
| Cheer up, it's a small & fast-to-track submission!

| Review questions
| ================
| 
| - What is your evaluation of the design?
Not qualified to comment.

| - What is your evaluation of the implementation?
Not qualfied to comment.

| - What is your evaluation of the documentation?

Definitions given may be adequate, but is MUST have some user-friendly
guidance as to when it would be useful. Even the summary would be better
than nothing!

| The Promotion Traits extend Boost.TypeTraits with templates 
| that compute the type after promotion has been applied.
| 
| Example:
| 
|     // given
|     template<typename T> struct some_algorithm;
|     template<> struct some_algorithm<int> { [...] };
|     // [...] more specializations
| 
|     // ,
| 
|     [...] some_algorithm< typename integral_promotion<T>::type > [...]
|     // makes some_algorithm work for any type T that promotes to an
integer
|     // (that is enums and smaller integral types) without the need for 
|     // additional specialization

Practical exampleS of use are ESSENTIAL.

| - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
When useful, very useful.

| - Did you try to use the library?
No.

| - How much effort did you put into your evaluation?
Fast-track interrupt handling only ;-)

| - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
No.

| Please always explicitly state in your review, whether you 
| think the library should be accepted into Boost.
Accept, subject to providing documentation.

Paul

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