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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: To standardize Boost.Pool
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:55:47 +0900
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Phil Bouchard <phil@fornux.com> writes:
> My apologies but I forgot mentioning that we wouldn't want if_from to
> get discredited before it upgrades to the standards.  We are looking for
> both a standard compliant version of is_from and a system specific
> version of it.

BTW, the name "is_from" seems very odd -- "foo->is_from (ptr)" _looks_
like it should ask the question "foo is from ptr?", but really it means
the opposite ("ptr is from foo?").

A better name might be "contains":   foo->contains (ptr)

-miles

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