Re: [boost] [tr2]Add Combination against std::permutation. HELP!

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-16 05:40:35

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
|  [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jeff Garland
|  Sent: 15 September 2006 15:29
|  To: boost_at_[hidden]
|  Subject: Re: [boost] [tr2]Add Combination against 
|  std::permutation. HELP!
|  
|  Ben Bear wrote:
|  > Hi, all!
|  > 
|  > I wrote a proposal for TR2 about add combination against
|  > std::permutation.  It's here:
|  > http://www.bxmy.org/article/tr2/combi_tr2.txt
|  > 
|  > And the source code:
|  > http://www.bxmy.org/article/tr2/combination.hpp
|  > http://www.bxmy.org/article/tr2/test.cpp
|  > 
|  > 
|  > I need HELP!  Because my bad ability in English, can anybody edit
|  > this report?  And can anybody commit this proposal to WG21?
|  
|  I'm not a member of the committee, but do know a little 
|  about how the process 
|  works. And I'm afraid you've missed the pre-meeting mailing 
|  for the Portland 
|  meeting in Oct.  In all likelihood that means it might be 
|  very difficult to 
|  get your proposal on the agenda....which means it likely 
|  won't make it into 
|  tr2 given that Portland is the cutoff for new proposals.
|  
|  Still you shouldn't give up.  This looks very useful to me 
|  and would be a nice 
|  contribution to Boost even if it doesn't make TR2...so read on.
|  
|  > One year ago, I wrote a email to the libstdc++ group for the
|  > combination, and they said that I should commit this to 
|  the Boost.  I
|  > wrote a email to this mailing list one month ago, but 
|  nobody replies me.
|  > Maybe I should write the proposal for TR2.  Now I wrote a draft.
|  
|  Sorry to hear that.  Sometimes there's alot of email and it 
|  takes a bit of 
|  persistence to get attention.  I would hope that John 
|  Maddock and Paul Bristow 
|  could evaluate your proposal as they've been working on some 
|  math and 
|  statistical interfaces. 

I noted this item some time and thought it looked a useful addition, and
still seems so (though not widely useful?).  But I am not nearly well
qualified enough to judge and review the document - especially in the
version at http://www.bxmy.org/article/combination.pdf  ;-)

However, I sense it is 'orthogonal' to the maths and stats work (alpha
release Real Soon Now!) that John Maddock has done (with some minor input
from me) so I am doubtful about much synergy between the two.  

I fear that Jeff is correct that you have missed the time-limit for TR2, but
you can still submit it as a WG21 paper - TR3 may eventually exist.  And I
would still encourage you to submit for Boost.  The 1st step is to dump your
files in the Boost files vault http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/ .

Paul

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