Re: [boost] [review] Fast track formal review of Forward library begins today

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-04 18:08:40

Eric,

thanks for your positive review.

Eric Niebler wrote:
> John Torjo wrote:
>> The formal review of the Boost.Functional/Forward library, proposed by 
>> Tobias Schwinger, begins today :
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>      * What is your evaluation of the design?
> 
> Good. I can think of a couple of missing features.
> 
> - An option to handle const and non-const arguments up to N, and only 
> [non-]const arguments from N to M.

That sentence is about a single scenario (not two or three), correct?
What use cases do you have in mind?

> - Automatically detect if the compiler supports variadic templates and 
> rvalue references and use those instead. This can be a useful 
> portability utility when such compilers become more common.

Yes, that seems a good idea.

>>      * What is your evaluation of the documentation?
> 
> Short and to the point. Would be nice if the reference section for each 
> of the adaptors had a little example usage.

IIRC, I just failed to come up with small but meaningful samples. Maybe
I should loosen the criteria, figuring a stupid example might still be
better than no example ;-).

Regards,
Tobias