Re: [boost] [core] A better boost::swap

Subject: Re: [boost] [core] A better boost::swap
From: Rob Stewart (robertstewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-12-28 08:49:29

On December 27, 2014 12:47:40 PM EST, Peter Dimov <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>Andrzej Krzemienski wrote:
>> 2014-12-26 12:05 GMT+01:00 Antony Polukhin <antoshkka_at_[hidden]>:
>> > Are there any reasons not to change the existing implementation of 
>> > Boost.Swap to Ion's version?
>>
>> You may find it a silly argument, and it goes back to these
>dependency 
>> graph discussions. If you look at the dependency report, like this
>one 
>> http://www.pdimov.com/tmp/report-d5ca5be/module-levels.html
>> It says Boost.Core is level 2 (so, fairly primitive) while Boost.Move
>is 
>> Level 6.
>
>It's in fact not a silly argument at all. Boost.Core is explicitly not 
>allowed to acquire new dependencies - this was the reason for creating
>it. 
>We can in principle extract Boost.Swap into its own module though. 

I'm sure Antony meant to change the implementation to match the ideas in Ion's code, not use the test implementation he showed.

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Rob

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