[std-interval] More on interval computations as proofs
Lawrence Crowl
Lawrence at Crowl.org
Sun Oct 1 23:06:45 PDT 2006
On 10/1/06, Guillaume Melquiond <guillaume.melquiond at ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> To summarize my point on this issue: if I was sure that the next C++
> Standard is going to correctly support multi-threading, I wouldn't have
> suggested the explicit flag approach. I would instead have pushed for
> the implicit flag, as this is what interval users really expect. They
> don't want to carry a flag all around, they just want to clear the flag,
> do all their interval computations, and check the flag at the end.
I think the committee regards multithreading as very important. It might
even approach the 'delay the standard until we have it' status. That may
not be necessary, but it is conceivable.
I think the convenience factor could be mostly handled by having the
appropriate operations accept an additional reference parameter to
a user-provided boolean variable. This way the side effects are clear.
The cost is in naming the variable and passing it on each operation.
--
Lawrence Crowl
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