Re: [boost] [modularization] Extracting lexical_cast from conversion

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] Extracting lexical_cast from conversion
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-07 10:15:57

John Maddock wrote:

> I'm open to the idea of some sort of "Math core" lib, even though it's 
> likely to suffer feature creep, ...

It seems to me that the fpclassify.hpp/sign.hpp functions, that correspond 
to the "Classification macros" section of C99, are "core" enough to stand 
apart from the rest of the Math library.

We could have a "float" module, the analog of the "integer" module, but for 
the built-in floating point types, which would be the natural place for 
those functions.

> but provided - and this is going to be the controversial bit - that tests 
> and docs remain in the "one true Math lib".  In other words it's just a 
> small module containing some headers, with links to the Math lib for docs 
> and tests.

No opinion on that one. It's just a handful of functions anyway. Pretty much 
anything will work.