Re: [boost] Re: Property_map docs

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-14 16:42:19

Hi Edward,

What you say below is an excellent suggestion, and I'll add that
to the introduction in the docs for property map.

Best Regards,
Jeremy

--On Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:23 PM -0500 Edward Diener 
<eddielee_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> I would still say to anyone willing to listen that the doc should spell
> this out, ie. "all these concepts are for you the implementor to put
> together to create the generic functions that work using the categories
> mentioned. There is no implementation here." If I had read that I might
> still have been interested in the concepts as pure ideas, but I would
> have probably moved on pretty quickly, or further looked into the BGL to
> see what was a practical implementation of this concept, but I would not
> have posted anything here regarding the doc which I clearly didn't
> understand and couldn't make heads or tails out of. It was my frustration
> about reading the pieces of what I though was an implementation, and not
> having any idea how these pieces were supposed to fit together to form
> some sort of reality, that led to my frustration and initial post.