[boost] Some FC++ comments

2003-07-28 Thread Miroslav Silovic
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

Re: [boost] spatial and metric containers

2003-07-25 Thread Miroslav Silovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SMTL aims to efficiently solve queries like: a) Which books where written by authors whose last name begins with B between 1986 and 1994? b) How many cities with population above 10,000 are located between such and such latitude and such and such longitude? c) Which

Re: [boost] Interest in FC++?

2003-06-27 Thread Miroslav Silovic
Brian McNamara wrote: I would like to see if there is interest in incorporating the FC++ library into Boost. Whoa! I've taken a look into FC++ at one occasion and found it most impressive. :) With regards to (1), I hope yes, but the Boost Lambda Library has a bit of conceptual overlap with

[boost] Operator result type inference

2003-02-13 Thread Miroslav Silovic
I noticed that boost::lambda library has a complete implementation of the type inference for the operator results (i.e. inferring that char + int returns an int). I would really like to be able to use that in my code, however, the Lambda implementation is currently undocumented. What's the

Re: [boost] Serialization Review Results

2002-12-13 Thread Miroslav Silovic
Augustus Saunders wrote: You could pretty much write that same code now with iostreams replacing CArchive. How is *any* serialization library going to make your life easier than it is now? I don't want to sound accusatory, so let me rephrase: If you could have anything your serializing heart

[boost] Continuations (was: tandard interface for adaptable function objects?)

2002-11-22 Thread Miroslav Silovic
Anthony Williams wrote: Given that a functor might support more than one argument set, the only way I can think of is to say do you support this argument set? rather than what argument set do you accept?; in which case you can use the mechanism implemented in boost.lambda, and in my function