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From: Tom Brinkman (reportbase_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-10-03 18:41:38


Looks good to me. I spent 30 minutes reading the documentation and
trying a few examples. Tuples and structs are meat and potatoes
types of things, and this library seems to be very well considered.
I vote ACCEPT.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:15 AM Benedek Thaler via Boost-announce
<boost-announce_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> The Boost formal review of the FPR (Flat Precise Reflection, ex Magic
> Get, ex PODs Flat Reflection) takes place from September 28, 2020
> to October 7, 2020.
>
> The library is authored by Antony Polukhin, author of Boost.DLL,
> Stacktrace, Type Index libraries.
>
> Documentation: http://apolukhin.github.io/magic_get/
> Source: https://github.com/apolukhin/magic_get
>
> The library is meant for accessing structure elements by index and
> providing other std::tuple like methods for user defined types without
> any macro or boilerplate code.
>
> The FPR documentation summarizes the out-of-the-box added
> functionality for aggregate initializable structures:
>
> - comparison operators
> - heterogeneous comparators
> - hash
> - stream operators
> - access to members by index
> - member reflections
> - methods for cooperation with std::tuple
> - methods to visit each field of the structure
>
> If the description isn't immediately obvious for you, here's a
> motivating example:
>
> // requires: C++14
> #include <iostream>
> #include <string>
> #include "boost/pfr/precise.hpp"
>
> struct some_person {
> std::string name;
> unsigned birth_year;
> };
>
> int main() {
> some_person val{"Edgar Allan Poe", 1809};
>
> std::cout << boost::pfr::get<0>(val) // No macro!
> << " was born in " << boost::pfr::get<1>(val); // Works with
> any aggregate initializables!
> }
>
> Please provide in your review information you think is valuable to
> understand your choice to ACCEPT or REJECT including FPR as a
> Boost library. Please be explicit about your decision (ACCEPT or REJECT).
>
> Some other questions you might want to consider answering:
>
> - What is your evaluation of the design?
> - What is your evaluation of the implementation?
> - What is your evaluation of the documentation?
> - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
> - Did you try to use the library? With which compiler(s)? Did you
> have any problems?
> - How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick
> reading? In-depth study?
> - Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
>
> More information about the Boost Formal Review Process can be found
> at: http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html
>
> Thank you for your effort in the Boost community.
>
> Benedek
> - review manager of the FPR library
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