Re: [boost] Preview 2 of a template Geometry Library

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-26 16:51:58

I (John Femiani) wrote:
> 
> Also, I already disagree about the idea that a point should have
> coordinates. CoordinatesConcept should be part of a separate concept.
Of
> course a useful point class will model both the coordinates and the
> point concept. To me a point should really support transform, scale,
> rotate, shear, and distance operations as free functions (maybe more).
> 
> I don't know how to handle the idea of a 'space' or a 'kernel'.
> 

s/transform/translate

Maybe there should also be a generic transform concept to but I dunno.

Joel de Guzman wrote: 
> I am talking about generic programming and C++ concepts:
> http://www.research.att.com/~bs/popl06.pdf.

That paper uses syntax that is not yet part of _most_ C++ compilers, so
I would like a proposed library to use the BCCL
(http://www.boost.org/libs/concept_check ).

Also there is a nice video from Doug Gregor
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1790714981047186825 that helped
me understand this subject (to the extent that I do)

-- John Femiani