220 32753 <62b6b525-143e-49c4-b7d0-f137fcd42ed1@gmail.com> article Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Matthew Woehlke Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Why do we include a Matrix and Vector class into the proposed 2D Graphics Library? Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 10:52:41 -0400 Lines: 24 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: <62b6b525-143e-49c4-b7d0-f137fcd42ed1@gmail.com> References: <7e3ee19d-f758-4d38-a015-0c474424073d@isocpp.org> <20170609115017.5132345.91153.30981@gmail.com> Reply-To: std-proposals@isocpp.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497365581 27342 195.159.176.226 (13 Jun 2017 14:53:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:53:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 To: std-proposals@isocpp.org, Nicol Bolas Original-X-From: std-proposals+bncBC37LBFWUIFBBPPY77EQKGQEHRUT64A@isocpp.org Tue Jun 13 16:52:55 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-ua0-f199.google.com ([209.85.217.199]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dKnBZ-000666-Aj for gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; 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[66.194.253.20]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id r133sm1832957oif.41.2017.06.13.07.52.42 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 07:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Original-Sender: mwoehlke.floss@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of mwoehlke.floss@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4003:c06::232 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mwoehlke.floss@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (p=NONE sp=NONE dis=NONE) header.from=gmail.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:32753 Archived-At: On 2017-06-10 12:58, Nicol Bolas wrote: > Having to get a full-fledged vector/matrix library through the committee is > a lot harder than just saying, "here's a few types that exist for a narrow > purpose". You'd essentially be delaying the standardization of the graphics > library for things that have nothing to do with graphics. If we standardize the graphics library as-is, then later introduce general linear algebra types, we'll end up with people wanting to know 'why the ___ doesn't the graphics API use the standard types?!'. > Now granted, I don't think the graphics library should be standardized *at > all* Yeah. That too :-). -- Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/d/msgid/std-proposals/62b6b525-143e-49c4-b7d0-f137fcd42ed1%40gmail.com. .