C++Now! 2012 slides

[Timon Gehr]

On 06/07/2012 08:34 PM, Peter Alexander wrote:
>
> I find this very ugly. To be honest, I would be much happier without all
> that mostNegative and common type stuff.
> If I want to get the min
> between a short and an int I'll just cast them appropriately.

The mostNegative and common type stuff is there to enable correct 
semantics for taking the minimum of signed and unsigned values. Minimum 
of short and int would work fine without that.

> I'd much rather have a simpler standard library than a complicated one for the
> sake of a little convenience.
>

'min' is not complicated.