[boost] Re: [optional] Doc edits

From: Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-14 23:07:15

"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> escribió en el mensaje
news:b4t5ml$hu8$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> Under "A note about optional<bool>" is the line:
>
>     Second, optional<> provides and implicit conversion to bool.
>
> Of course, it should be "an".
>
Fixed, thanks!

>An even subtler nitpick is that in the
> line:
>
>     First, it is functionally similar to a tristate boolean (false,
>     maybe,true) -such as boost::tribool-, except that in a tristate
>     boolean, the maybe state represents a valid value, unlike the
>     corresponding state of an uninitialized optional<bool>.
>
> I think two hyphens should be used for the em-dashes (or the
> actual em-dash character, which is probably not portable).  Also,
> the comma after the em-dash is probably not necessary (even
> though it would be if the parenthetical phrase were not present).
>
Fixed. Thanks again!!

BTW: It took me a little to understand what you've said because
I didn't know about the em-dash. But I found a nice explanation
on the web about em/en-dashes, the hyphen, and their correct uses.

I used &mdash; directly since I found many boost documents using
it.

> Otherwise, the documentation looks great!
>
Thank you!

Fernando Cacciola