Re: [boost] Ann: Floating Point Utilities Review starts today

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-27 05:07:16

John Phillips wrote:
>    Sorry for miss-naming and calling the Math Toolkit by the incorrect
> MathTools,

No worries :-)

> but the basis for my concern that they will be merged is
> from
> the review announcement, where John Maddock says:

The intention (at least on my part) is to merge the implementations so that 
we don't end up with two different versions(!), and so that we get the best 
of both worlds: the genericity of the current Boost.Math version (works to a 
degree with numbers represented as class types), and the performance of 
Johan's version for the builtin floating point types.

How the library and documentation should be structured is a whole other 
issue - thanks for raising this - I think you're correct that these 
utilities should be easy to find and at the very least flagged up on the 
library index page.

I'm open to suggestions as to whether that means separate documentation and 
organisation, or just a separate index entry leading to the sub-TOC for 
fpclassify etc.  There are pro's and cons either way, so I'm easy I guess.

John.