Re: [boost] [random] Major update

Subject: Re: [boost] [random] Major update
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-23 13:18:30

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> AMDG
>
> On 03/18/2011 02:44 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>
>> Awesome, Steven; it's great to see this library progressing.  Where
>> does it stand in terms of compatibility with TR1/C++0x?  I know that
>> for a while they had drifted quite widely out-of-sync.
>
> I've tried to match the C++0x draft.  To my knowledge the
> only remaining incompatibilities are:
> * I'm playing fast and loose with the integral types used.
>  e.g. uint_least32_t instead of uint_fast32_t, or uintmax_t,
>  instead of unsigned long long.

Why? (just curious)

> * There is no typedef /unspecified/ default_random_engine.

Why not? (ditto)

> * A few constructors that take rvalue references are missing.
>  rvalues will bind to const T& instead.

OK

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Dave Abrahams
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