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

From: Ben Bear (benbearchen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-16 08:21:14

2006/9/16, Paul A Bristow <pbristow_at_[hidden]>:
>
>
> |  -----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/ .
>

Thanks for showing me the way.  I'll ready to submit for Boost.  Eh,
it will be a
little slow for me.  I don't know well about this community.

It's pity that I'm late for TR2.