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Thorsten Ottosen | 8 Dec 2003 13:04
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Numeric Conversion Formal Review

Dear all,

The review of Fernando Cacciola Numeric Conversion library starts today (8th
of Dec.) and runs until the
22th of December.

>From the introduction:
"The Boost Numeric Conversion library is a collection of tools to describe
and perform conversions between values of different numeric types.

The library includes a special alternative for a subset of
std::numeric_limits<>, the bounds<> traits class, which provides a
consistent way to obtain the boundary values for the range of a numeric
type.

It also includes a set of trait classes which describes the compile-time
properties of a conversion from a source to a target numeric type. Both
arithmetic and user-defined numeric types can be used."

If you intend to make a review, then please read all of this mail.

1. The library can be downloaded in the files-section at yahoo (the file is
called "numeric_conversions.zip")
2. Fernando and I are aware that the documentation could be more "tidy", but
we don't think it will hinder any serious review.
3. Please try to work with Fernando if there arises compiler problems etc.
Even of some compiler problems cannot be overcome,
    please try to focus on a useful subset of the functionality
4. Please follow the guidelines described at
http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm#Comments, in particular,
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Thorsten Ottosen | 29 Dec 2003 06:15
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Numeric Conversion Review Results


Dear All,

I'm pleased to announce that Fernando Cacciola's Numeric Conversion library
is accepted into boost.

Although it was not clear how all advanced issues should be resolved (see
below), I think there is a solid foundation
on which to improve the library. Bjarne Stroupstrup has said that good
languages are not merely designed to be good, but they are grown into good
languages; IMO, the
same holds for libraries.

The rest of this mail has this agenda:

1) statistics
2) issues
3) improvements that must be made

(1) Statistics
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Here is how people voted:

people doing a review:  9
people voting yes:        7
people voting no:          0
people not voting:         2

Some general comments: Only one person was *really* knowlegable about the
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