Re: [boost] Boost vs Std library features

On 11/30/23 01:03, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:

There were still some big design mistakes in 11 - I still find `<random>` very unfortunate and entirely avoidable at the time, unlike `` or initialiser lists where the defects were not obvious initially. `<regex>` and `` probably couldn't have been predicted easily in advance, at their time they seemed reasonable.

Could you elaborate on the design problems of the above components? Or perhaps, you have a link where these problems are described? I'm interested in initializer lists, regex and unordered_map in particular.