Re: [boost] [safe_numerics] Last three days

Subject: Re: [boost] [safe_numerics] Last three days
From: Andrzej Krzemienski (akrzemi1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-10 11:12:41

2017-03-10 11:00 GMT+01:00 Niall Douglas via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>:

> >> Hi Everyone,
> >> We have three last days remaining for safe_numerics review (till March
> >> 11th). If you like working under time pressure, this is the perfect
> moment
> >> for doing your review.
> >>
> >> If you would like to submit your review, but feel you will not make it
> till
> >> March 11th, let me know, we can try to extend the review period.
> >
> > FWIW, I feel that this is a complex library and people clearly need more
> time to consider it.
>
> For me personally, this is a library really far from my experience. I've
> never used anything like it before. It looks fine, the design looks
> good, implementation the same and the docs reasonable. But I'm also
> aware there are alternatives out there in the open source and I don't
> know how this compares to those. I also know proposals about this domain
> have gone before WG21 in the past, and I don't know how those compare to
> this either.
>
> This is why I, and I suspect many others, haven't given a review nor
> intend to. I have such low confidence in my opinion of this library that
> I feel it worthless to say anything about it all other than "it looks
> okay".
>
> Hence extending the review period I suspect will make little difference.
>

We'll see if anyone requests for more time.

Regards,
&rzej;