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Subject: Re: [boost] [gsoc] Interest in BGL v2?
From: Mostafa (mostafa_working_away_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-31 22:20:47


On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:02:43 -0700, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> At Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:53:02 -0500,
> Andrew Sutton wrote:
>>
>> I will say that our design does take a slightly more object-oriented
>> approach (g.size(), for example), but that hardly precludes
>> adaptation. Adaptors would have to be written as classes, but that
>> shouldn't be a big deal.
>
> I think you underestimate the cost of adaptation-via-wrapper and urge
> you to stick with free functions unless you have a really good reason
> to do otherwise.
>

Can you elaborate?

Thanks,

Mostafa


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