On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Alex Shinn <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Insanity. If it will be a portable library that places no burden on
> > implementors, then it doesn't even need to be in the standard.
>
> This is for WG2, the "large" standard.  The whole point of WG2
> is to provide standard libraries.  If you don't think libraries matter,
> free to ignore the WG2 effort and only concern yourself with WG1.


It does not follow that everything which could be a library should be.
Libraries should be in the standard when efficient implementation will
normally be implementation dependent (so that a standard implementation
won't do). In this case, you assured me that there isn't any need for a
implementation dependent variation.


> > How do you think it will genuinely place no burden on implementors?
>
> Because they can just use the reference implementation.


This is not "no burden".
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