[boost] Re: new compile-time dimensional analysis and unitlibrary

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-12 10:21:07

Phil Richards <news_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On 2003-12-12, Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>  Phil Richards wrote:
>> > I have to say that the lack of documentation was the thing that
>> > stopped me from using the MPL in the physical quantities library
>> > I started writing as a progression of what we use on a (real) project.
>>  Hmm, have you looked here -
>>  http://www.boost.org/libs/mpl/doc/ref/Table_of_Contents.html?
>
> Yes.
>
>>  All algorithms and in particular [the current version of] 'transform' are
>>  pretty well documented -
>>  http://www.boost.org/libs/mpl/doc/ref/Algorithms.html.
>
> Well, yes.  It documents:
>
>     template<typename Sequence, typename Op>
>     struct transform { ... };
>
> And Dave Abrahams ACCU slides use:
>
>     template <class Sequence1, class Sequence2, class BinaryOp>
>     struct transform;

This was something Aleksey told me would be in the library, or he got
inspired as we were writing the example and decided he was going to
add (I forget which).  In fact, I'm pretty sure it's documented that
way in the book... [checking] Yep, so it is.

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Dave Abrahams
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