Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review
From: DE (satan66613_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-04 03:12:19

on 04.05.2010 at 5:22
 Scott McMurray wrote :

> That said, I'm not sure whether it's better to not provide min and
> max, and thus catch code that uses them without checking is_bounded,
> or to possibly make it easier to correctly write code that does check
> is_bounded.

a very good point
i wish it were said in the standard explicitly

> And who knows -- maybe making it easy with SFINAE would mean that
> those developers that don't know will go looking for the clean way and
> learn a new tool.

typically a programmer (especially a C++ one) is a very lazy beast
so i'm afraid if one encounters a thing he can not understand he'll
drop this lib and go for another one which he'd understand better
(easier)

-- 
Pavel
P.S.
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