Re: [boost] Re: Combining Generative Programming and Poli

From: Iain.Hanson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-02-20 09:58:43

Author:  bdawes (bdawes_at_[hidden]) at unix,mime
Date:    18/02/02 17:04

At 10:45 AM 2/18/2002, timatdvc wrote:
     
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 >>
 >>Actually, if one took named template parameters using enumerated 
 >>values, this would be a good description of what I used to pass 
 >>configuration information to the generator.  The selected (or 
 >>default) options would then result in the actual policies being 
 >>selected.  Good paper, by the way!  Wish I'd found it sooner.  Makes 
 >>me feel a bit like I've reinvented a wheel... ;)
     
>Tim,

you might also like to check out the C&E paper on named template parameters 
referenced for the iterators paper at 
http://www.generative-programming.org/namedparams/
     
     
>You might also read Mat Marcus' 
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/message/23654 if you haven't done so 
>already.
This did not come through to me on email. I only picked up on it because of 
this reference.

Excelent paper. I had been struggling with GenVoca and I think this has 
given me a much clearer idea. It was particularly good and pointing out the 
seperation  between DSL and ICCL. I'd be real interested to see the more 
about the config generator.
     
>The techniques you, Dave, Jeremy, and Mat are exploring are on the research 
>frontier of generic and generative programming.  Very few people understand 
>them fully.  I know I don't.

Ahhhhhhhh.... This would explain why I'm having so much problem with my 
sockets lib. I'm pretty much a newbie at generative/meta programming.
     
>For these techniques to migrate into the main stream, there is a real need 
>for descriptive material that is easier to understand.  Andrei 
>Alexandrescu did a great job in his book at making policies easy enough to 
>understand that many of us could start using them in everyday programming. 
> Someone needs to do something similar for combining generative 
>programming, named template parameters, and policy-based design into a 
>unified, understandable, technique.

A Design Patters for meta programming would be what I'd really like to see.

/ikh
     

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