Re: [boost] Re: operators.hpp issue

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-28 13:00:54

----- Original Message -----
From: <helmut.zeisel_at_[hidden]>

> I would appreciate an additional related
> family of operator templates.

Why don't you submit a proposed patch (including one for the documentation)?

> As you might have observed,
> I am working on an unlimited integer class
> where your operator templates are very helpful.

:-)

> There are, however, some other issues
> (must unlimited integer classes
> support the full operators interface?
> In particular, the boolean operators |,&,^ might
> restrict the implementation to a power of 2 radix).

Do we care? Powers-of-2 are at the core of the C++ standard for integer
representation.

> It is no problem to construct such additional
> things from your class, but I think a better
> place would be directly in your header files.

OK.

> Hopefully we can discuss these issues
> in more details when my implementation
> is available.

I'm looking forward to it.

-Dave