Fun Projects [was Re: [boost] Thoughts on Roman numbers]

From: Joel de Guzman (djowel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-26 22:47:45

Hi,

Once, we thought about doing a morse code to ascii converter
using expression templates and *EXTREME* abuse of
operator overloading. This should raise some eyebrows, for sure.
Example:

std::cout << --*---**--*-*-- morse << std::endl;

:-) 

... di-dit-da-daat-dat-dat-ly-yrs,
--Joel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Siek" <jsiek_at_[hidden]>

> 
> I always thought Roman numbers would make a great April fools proposal for
> standardization :) It would have been particularly funny for April 1 of
> 2000!
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
> 
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Beman Dawes wrote:
> bdawes> At 02:42 AM 10/25/02, Daryle Walker wrote:
> bdawes>
> bdawes>  >As another poster on this subject has said, Roman numbers don't have
> bdawes>  >different math rules, they are just a different external representation
> bdawes>  >of natural numbers.  This suggests that the place for new code is in
> bdawes>  >the I/O system!  We'll use a special locale with custom facets.
> bdawes>
> bdawes> Boost libraries shouldn't always be dead serious. There should be
> bdawes> a place for fun libraries too.  They can be useful, too, and often
> bdawes> make good teaching examples.
> bdawes>
> bdawes> I hope those interested in Roman Numerals continue to work on the
> bdawes> problem, and come up with a nice little library for Boost!
> bdawes>
> bdawes> --Beman
> bdawes>
> 
> 
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