Re: [boost] Comments about N2320

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-01 09:47:47

Howard Hinnant wrote:

> Here's an interesting read on the subject:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2455.pdf
>
> For those of you not familiar with the language of standardization,
> this is an official letter from the C committee to the C++ committee
> saying: "Thank you for removing cancellation.  Now we want you to
> promise that you will not even discuss bringing it back."

I was pretty surprised by N2455 and figured that there's a missing context, 
without which it doesn't make sense to the uninformed.