From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-11 12:45:38
At 11:23 PM 7/10/2001, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
>
>I will give one example, however, of code written by
>> you:
>>
>> template <class T>
>> T next(T x) { return ++x; }
>>
>> Does this really need anything more?
>
>Not in the code, but in the html, certainly.
>However I admit I'd be tempted to leave that undocumented if it were an
>implementation detail.
Yes, I should have given an example which was an implementation detail.
>If you tell people they should document the effects, you ought to say
what
>you mean.
OK, I'll try some additional wording.
>> Again, I just copied the standard. For Boost, and many libraries,
>> complexity should only be specified when the effort of doing so (with
its
>> implied constraint on implementors) is sufficiently offset by the
>benefits.
>
>Great. Would you like to submit updated proposed changes?
OK, I've sent proposed HTML to you via private email.
--Beman