Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [math toolkit] Formal Review today, April 11, through April 20

From: Gottlob Frege (gottlobfrege_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-11 12:32:09

On 4/11/07, Matthias Schabel <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> The formal review of the Math Toolkit, submitted by John Maddock,
> Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin, and Xiaogang Zhang, begins today, April
> 11 and ends April 20. The library and documentation may be downloaded
> from the Boost Vault:
>
> http://www.boost-consulting.org/vault/index.php?
> &direction=0&order=&directory=Math%20-%20Numerics
>
> The Math Toolkit is divided into three interrelated components :
>
> 1) a reasonably comprehensive set of statistical distributions
> 2) a set of high quality special functions
> 3) tools needed to implement special functions
>

My first (and probably only, as it is not my area) comment is that it
shouldn't just be called 'The Math Toolkit".  'Math' is much much too
big to fit into a single toolkit.  This toolkit seems to be geared
towards statistics, so should be labeled as such.  I see the directory
is called 'Math - Numerics', so maybe that label should be used
throughout (including header files, namespaces, etc).

Tony