P0828 Elastic Integers

[wg21bot]

P0828R1 Elastic Integers (John McFarlane)

[johnmcfarlane]

LEWGI reviewed P0828 in Kona but it was never linked to on the LEWGI page.

[brycelelbach]

Kona 2019-02 LEWGI Minutes

P0828R1 Elastic Integers
P0037R6 Fixed Point Integers
P0554R0 Composition of Arithmetic Types

Champion: Davis Herring

Minute Taker: Mark Hoemmen

Start P0828R1 Overview: 10:06

Start P0037R6 Overview: 10:30

Consistency with std::chrono durations and std::ratio?

Start P0554R0 Overview: 11:16

Start Polling: 11:28

POLL: Given what we know right now, we like the general library design of the compositional approach in P0554R0/etc (example: fixed_point<elastic_integer, Exponent>)

Strongly For	Weakly For	Neutral	Weakly Against	Strongly Against
6	3	3	1	0

Attendance: 16

That has consensus.

Jeffrey (A): Worried about complexity; having all of these options available might confuse people.

Break for Lunch: 11:33

Resume after Lunch: 13:07

End: 13:52

[brycelelbach]

Needs revision to address committee feedback. See earlier comments on this issue as well as this comment on P0554.