Re: [Boost] [Describe] Summary Review Summary

From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-03-16 14:52:41

On 16/03/2021 12:52, Glen Fernandes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 6:17 AM Niall Douglas wrote:
>> Something not appreciated outside the committee is that both the library
>> proposer(s), and their experienced users, often also want substantial
>> refactoring after their empirical experience.
> 
> Note that Richard Hodges is inside the committee (just in case that
> wasn't clear to anyone else).

This is news to me.

I don't recall reading any WG21 papers by him, nor seeing him at any
WG21 committee meeting. I have only been attending myself for a few
years, however, so maybe he predates me.

I would be highly surprised if anybody who had regularly attended and
contributed to other people's papers would have the opinions he has,
most of which seem to duplicate the echo chambers in certain parts of
Slack and Reddit and other self selecting engineering groups on the
internet. Well informed criticism of WG21 is perfectly valid, and
probably shared by most WG21 participants in fact. But uninformed
criticism based on grievances is not.

Niall