TR1 Special Math

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 8 May 2015 at 15:05, Ed Smith-Rowland wrote:
> On 05/07/2015 12:06 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> The C++ committee is considering the
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2015/n4437.pdf
>> proposal to make C++17 include the contents of ISO 29124:2010 (the
>> special math functions from TR1 that went into a separate standard,
>> not into C++11).
>>
>> What is the status of our TR1 implementation? Is it complete? Good
>> enough quality to move out of the tr1 sub-dir?
>>
>> Even if N4437 isn't accepted for C++17 we could move things around to
>> turn the TR1 code into an iso29124 implementation, do you think that
>> would make sense?
>>
> That would make absolute sense.
> I actually have a tree where I've done that.
> All the functions are in there (29124 removed the hypergeometric functions.
> I'd like to keep those as extensions.
> I have some bugfixes also.
>
> I have a better version of the Carlson elliptic functions (which are used in
> the 29124 elliptic functions).

Excellent! Let's see how the WG21 polls go later today, and plan to do
this shuffling soon.