Re: What is this "Beman Project Development"?

From: Vinnie Falco (vinnie.falco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-10 04:55:35

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 4:06 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> The answer to this question is pretty simple. The chair of LEWG is Inbal
> Levi, one
> of the project leads of the so-called Beman Project.
>

Well, that is great news. As its first official library the Beman Project
should (with or without your assistance) adopt Boost.mp11 into the new
collection. Then they should take the mp11 paper which was rejected in
LEWG-I (or was it LEWG?) and bring it up to date. And finally submit the
paper and accompanying implementation which has received over two years of
field experience. This is quite literally the highest quality library the
Beman Project will ever see. And the best thing about it is that all the
work has already been done. The library is already written, the paper is
already written, and it comes from one of the brightest minds in the C++
world.

If mp11 can't get into the standard well I think that pretty much proves
everything I've been saying. And there is no point to having a Beman
Project, a Boost2, or any other initiative which is not capable of getting
through something obviously useful and correct.

If mp11 is successful, we might consider a larger work which is even more
useful, has a paper written, and has ten times more field experience. Asio
comes to mind.

Thanks