RE: [boost] [Review] Boost Graphs Library (GGCL)

From: jsiek_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-08-30 12:52:30

There is one place, test/graph.cpp. This isn't an algorithm, but the
common return type certainly made the test code easier to write
(one generic tests versions splitting the test based on graph/multigraph).

Gary Powell writes:
 > Well, in no place in GGCL (examples included) does anything use the result
 > of add_edge. There is one place where the result is printed to std::cout.
 > So the question could be, is it worth the effort of MutableGraph to even
 > bother reporting the failure? Ok, So that's a rhetorical question, and I'm
 > as guilty as most programmers in ignoring the result of functions.  I
 > suppose if it really matters, I'd check, i.e. heart monitor code, airplane
 > control code. But since you don't appear to need this result I'd change the
 > return type.
 > 
 >   I could be swayed by a generic algorithm that actually used it.
 > 
 >  -Gary-
 > 
 > gary.powell_at_[hidden]
 > 
 > 
 > PS
 >   Jens's the VTL library uses template templates. It's more a handy way of
 > hiding implementation details than required.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >