Re: [boost] [Boost.Yap] Review results

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost.Yap] Review results
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-06 07:19:10

On 2/03/2018 19:16, Louis Dionne wrote:
> - Positional placeholders should stay or go?
>      Some of the reviewers felt like it was not desirable to provide
> positional
>      placeholders as part of Yap, because those aren't the primary purpose of
>      the library and C++14 obsoletes them with lambdas. Other reviewers felt
>      like they were in fact very useful and shouldn't be removed. Since no
>      clear consensus could be reached, no acceptance condition is attached to
>      this issue. However, I personally favor the removal of placeholders from
>      the core API on the basis of minimality. I would like to encourage Zach
>      to check whether their removal would result in API simplifications; if
>      so, I would encourage (but not require) their removal, at Zach's
>      discretion.

Even if positional placeholders are needed, anything that requires at 
least C++11 should be using std::placeholders instead of defining custom 
ones, without compelling reason.