Re: proposal Multi multidimensional array library

From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-04-29 16:58:31

On 29/04/2023 17:51, Vinnie Falco via Boost wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 2:30 PM Alfredo Correa via Boost
> <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> https://gitlab.com/correaa/boost-multi.
> I've had a look at this repository, and these are my thoughts. It
> looks like the author has invested considerable effort to polish
> everything about the library up to be Boost quality. The README.md is
> comprehensive, well written, and sounds like the kind of things we
> care about. I don't know a whole lot about the particular needs of
> robust multi-dimensional array users but this has got to be worth
> reviewing.
>
> It seems the library requires C++17 or greater, which is unfortunate.
> But especially unfortunate considering that there are no features
> which actually require it other than using std::pmr::memory_resource.
> But this could have been conditionally enabled on the C++ version.

That seems to me like the sort of thing that could/should be thrashed 
out at review time, and either back-ported to C++14 or not.

John.