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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-27 22:18:01

At 11:47 PM 10/26/02, Joel de Guzman wrote:
 >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

Wonderful! Not only for Boost, but I'll bet CUJ or Dr. Dobb's would run an 
article on it for their April issues.

Now if you lexical_cast from Roman numerals to Morse code, the US Patent 
office might give you a patent. It isn't quite as good as a perpetual 
motion machine, but it comes close.

--Beman