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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-announce-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-announce-
> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:36 AM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]; boost-announce_at_[hidden]; Ronald Garcia
> Subject: [Boost-announce] Review Schedule - Spring 2007
> 
> We need review manager volunteers for most of the libraries
> in the review queue. If your interested, let us know by
> replying to this thread.  Preferably, you would have a
> background in the problem domain, a regular contributer to the
> boost mailing list, but no association with the
> library.  Some of the libraries have been waiting
> patiently for a volunteer for some time now.
> 
> The review schedule is available here:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_schedule.html .
> 
> You can read the "review manager"
> requirements at the following link:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm
> 
> Most of the libraries are located at the Boost Sandbox Vault,
> located here:
> 
> http://boost-consulting.com/vault/
> 
> Maintainers of the Review Queue:
> 
> Ronald Garcia (garcia (at) cs.indiana.edu )
> Tom Brinkman (reportbase (at) gmail.com)
> 
> If there is any errors or ommisions in this report,
> please send them to Ron or Tom.
> 
> 
> Here is a summary of the libraries that are in the queue.
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Library: Exception
> Author: Emil Dotchevski
> Location: http://www.revergestudios.com/boost-exception/boost-
> exception.zip
> Review Manager: Needed
> Date: Needed
> Summary:
> The purpose of Boost Exception is to free designers of
> exception classes from having to consider what data needs to
> be stored in exception objects in order for the catch site to
> be able to make sense of what went wrong. When Boost Exception
> is used, arbitrary values can be stored in any exception. This can be
> done directly in the throw-expression, or at a later time as the
> exception object propagates up the call stack. The ability to add
> data to any exception object after it has been thrown is important,
> because often some of the information needed to handle an
> exception is unavailable at the time of the throw.
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Library: Scope Exit
> Author: Alexander Nasonov
> Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
> Review Manager: Needed
> Date: Needed
> Summary:
> The scope-exit-arg-pp-seq is Boot.Preprocessor sequence
> of identifiers that can be used inside scope-exit-body.
> The direct-declarator is declarator-id followed by optional
> argument of type boost::scope_exit_group (inside brackets or
> after the equal sign). This construct executes scope-exit-body
> at the close of the current scope.
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Library: Finite State Machines
> Author: Andrey Semashev
> Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
> Review Manager: Martin Vuille
> Date: Needed
> Summary:
> The Boost.FSM library is an implementation of FSM
> (stands for Finite State Machine) programming concept.
> There are many cases when a developer would like to distinguish the
> behavior of a given object depending on some conditions or its
> internal state. For example, when making software to control
> an underground charging tourniquiet a programmer would like to
> separate states in which the tourniquiet may persist: an idle state,
> when the device awaits for another passenger that would like to
> pass; a processing state, when the passenger have come
> and put his ticket into the device; and the passing state,
> when the tourniquiet lets the passenger pass through. In
> fact, each state describes different reaction of the machine
> at the same events (a passenger may only pass after paying
> for ticket). Obviously, the tourniquiet have to be able to
> change its internal state in order to function properly,
> this is called state switching or transitions between
> states (or just transitions for short).
> 
> -----------------------------------
> Library: Floating Point Utilities
> Author: Johan Råde
> Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
> http://boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?directory=Math%20-%20Numerics
> Review Manager: Needed
> Date: Needed
> Summary:
> Proposed Additions to the Boost Math Library
> 
> <boost/math/fpclassify.hpp>
> Functions for floating point number classification:
>  fpclassify, isfinite, isinf, isnan, isnormal. Follows TR1.
> 
> <boost/math/signbit.hpp>
> Functions for floating point number sign bit access and modification:
> signbit, copysign, changesign. Follows TR1.
> 
> <boost/math/nonfinite_num_facets.hpp>
> Facets that parse and format infinity and NaN according to the C99
> standard.
> Used for portable handling of infinity and NaN in text streams.
> 
> -----------------------------------
> Library: Switch
> Author: Steven Watanabe
> Location: Boost Sandbox Vault
> http://tinyurl.com/yvssgx
> Review Manager: Needed
> Date: Needed
> Introduction: The built in C/C++ switch statement is very efficient.
> Unfortunately, unlike a chained if/else construct there is no easy way to
> use it when the number of cases depends on a template parameter.
> <TODO: more description needed>
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