Francis Glassborow wrote:

> For example I would very much like to see a standard numerics in C++
> library.  Many people would be uninterested.  The designers of such a
> library need to be experts in the field and probably would not want to
> be involved in other work (but having them work as part of WG21 would
> be, IMO, beneficial to them and might point the pure language experts at
> desirable extensions and future modifications)

And most numerical experts aren't C++ experts, even if there
are exceptions (Gaby ?), so they need to work with C++ experts
(for example committee members) to produce a specification
which makes a really a good C++ library, and not just a good
numerical library.

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Valentin Bonnard
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