On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:38:01PM +0200, Miroslav Silovic wrote: > Well, nobody posted anything definite on FC++, which is a pity, since I > find this library potentially very useful. Here are some comments. > Caveat: I haven't extensively used the library, but I have quite a bit > of experience with functional programming. I won't comment on the naming > scheme or the docs - that was covered in the original post.
I expect the docs are a big issue (as David Abrahams commented); most of the docs on the web site are aimed at an audience of researchers in functional programming. Over the next couple of weeks I will make documentation of the boostified version of FC++ that's aimed at a C++ audience. Hopefully that will help. > First, FC++ duplicates Boost::bind with its currying. Are there any > plans to reuse the Boost code for this? Boost::bind seems more powerful > and general, in that it can take functions with any arity and bind any > argument(s). (Perhaps again this is the fault of the documentation being poor.) FC++ full functoids are fully curryable by default. The "prefix" and "underscore" styles of currying are the preferred ways to do things. See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~yannis/fc++/currying.html for some examples. You can do the same things with boost::bind (or boost::lambda, or fcpp::lambda) too. I am talking to Jaakko and Joel (off-list) about the boost infrastructure there to ensure that, at the least, FC++ interoperates with the boost stuff, and at best, that much of the infrastructure can be reused. > I think FC++ could profit from pluggable memory management, perhaps as a > policy parameter. In particular, zonal allocation could allow one to do > away with refcounting for calculate-and-exit trips into FC++ code (where > you just carve small chunks from a list of memory pages, then nuke the > entire block once you're done with the calculation). This sounds like an interesting extension, though I don't know that I would be the right person to implement it. :) > One interesting Haskell feature that FC++ doesn't have are monadic > arrays. Are there any plans to communicate with writable STL containers > using monads? The monad stuff is very new; this sound like a terrific idea. I'll put it on my to-do list. > I also couldn't find any reference to tuples in the docs. Is there any > support for them? (This could be a low-hanging fruit, since Boost > already has tuples). There is nothing (other than std::pair and fcpp::mk_pair). I don't see any reason boost tuples couldn't be used in fc++ code, though. -- -Brian McNamara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
