1 Jul
2014
1 Jul
'14
12:49 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:23 AM, Niall Douglas
It is very tough to standardize a lot of libraries. Who would have thought Optional would be as difficult as it is turning out to be? However, (1) the committee has 20 years of experience with difficult to standardize libraries and is getting better at it, (2) the specification is what gets standardized, not the implementation, and that takes a lot of issues off the table, (3) the initial target is a Technical Specification, and the bar there is quite a bit lower, (4) it is usually acceptable for big libraries like ASIO to begin life lightly specified and let the specification mature over time. --Beman