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  30       <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_optional.acknowledgments.pre_formal_review"></a></span><a class="link" href="acknowledgments.html#boost_optional.acknowledgments.pre_formal_review">Pre-formal
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  33 <div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
  34 <li class="listitem">
  35           Peter Dimov suggested the name 'optional', and was the first to point out
  36           the need for aligned storage.
  37         </li>
  38 <li class="listitem">
  39           Douglas Gregor developed 'type_with_alignment', and later Eric Friedman
  40           coded 'aligned_storage', which are the core of the optional class implementation.
  41         </li>
  42 <li class="listitem">
  43           Andrei Alexandrescu and Brian Parker also worked with aligned storage techniques
  44           and their work influenced the current implementation.
  45         </li>
  46 <li class="listitem">
  47           Gennadiy Rozental made extensive and important comments which shaped the
  48           design.
  49         </li>
  50 <li class="listitem">
  51           Vesa Karvonen and Douglas Gregor made quite useful comparisons between
  52           optional, variant and any; and made other relevant comments.
  53         </li>
  54 <li class="listitem">
  55           Douglas Gregor and Peter Dimov commented on comparisons and evaluation
  56           in boolean contexts.
  57         </li>
  58 <li class="listitem">
  59           Eric Friedman helped understand the issues involved with aligned storage,
  60           move/copy operations and exception safety.
  61         </li>
  62 <li class="listitem">
  63           Many others have participated with useful comments: Aleksey Gurotov, Kevlin
  64           Henney, David Abrahams, and others I can't recall.
  65         </li>
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  69       <span class="phrase"><a name="boost_optional.acknowledgments.post_formal_review"></a></span><a class="link" href="acknowledgments.html#boost_optional.acknowledgments.post_formal_review">Post-formal
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  73 <li class="listitem">
  74           William Kempf carefully considered the originally proposed interface and
  75           suggested the new interface which is currently used. He also started and
  76           fueled the discussion about the analogy optional&lt;&gt;/smart pointer
  77           and about relational operators.
  78         </li>
  79 <li class="listitem">
  80           Peter Dimov, Joel de Guzman, David Abrahams, Tanton Gibbs and Ian Hanson
  81           focused on the relational semantics of optional (originally undefined);
  82           concluding with the fact that the pointer-like interface doesn't make it
  83           a pointer so it shall have deep relational operators.
  84         </li>
  85 <li class="listitem">
  86           Augustus Saunders also explored the different relational semantics between
  87           optional&lt;&gt; and a pointer and developed the OptionalPointee concept
  88           as an aid against potential conflicts on generic code.
  89         </li>
  90 <li class="listitem">
  91           Joel de Guzman noticed that optional&lt;&gt; can be seen as an API on top
  92           of variant&lt;T,nil_t&gt;.
  93         </li>
  94 <li class="listitem">
  95           Dave Gomboc explained the meaning and usage of the Haskell analog to optional&lt;&gt;:
  96           the Maybe type constructor (analogy originally pointed out by David Sankel).
  97         </li>
  98 <li class="listitem">
  99           Other comments were posted by Vincent Finn, Anthony Williams, Ed Brey,
 100           Rob Stewart, and others.
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 102 <li class="listitem">
 103           Joel de Guzman made the case for the support of references and helped with
 104           the proper semantics.
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 107           Mat Marcus shown the virtues of a value-oriented interface, influencing
 108           the current design, and contributed the idea of "none".
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 114 <td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright &#169; 2003-2007 Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal<br>Copyright &#169; 2014 Andrzej Krzemie&#324;ski<p>
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