On 10/9/17 10:43 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost wrote:
As an analogy, you may remember the "variant wars" which went on for nearly forever. A very simple, very well understood, object often generates the strongest opinions and people absolutely convinced that the other is wrong. Proof required to convince people thus rises accordingly.
This is better than an analogy - I think it's a good example. And I think that those who seek "proof" are often misguided. Often I wonder if the long contentious arguments about how something should be done are really differences about what the component should actually be expected to do. Some differences of opinion are just not reconcilable. And sometimes we'd be better off just accepting that and moving on until ideas evolve until there exists a more widely held consensus. I'm not really criticizing anyone here. It's something that just happens without the participants being aware of it. Robert Ramey