RE: [boost] The Test Tools Docs, Concept Checking

From: Rozental, Gennadiy (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-25 13:20:00

I could add proposed text, once somebody prepared it. 

Gennadiy.

> Hi,
> 
>     I have been reading the Test Tools docs. Would it be a 
> good idea to add ConceptChecking to the list of alternative 
> methods of reporting errors, in 
> /test/doc/index.html#introduction ?  A recent post on boost 
> alluded to the fact that Concepts (ie What is a concept? )  
> can be difficult to understand. Well ... ConceptChecks are 
> the medium for pinning down Concepts in C++ code and are 
> probably the most effective means of error reporting at 
> compile time, but are not used as much as they could be. The 
> Boost Test Library would seem to be as good a place as any to 
> promote them, which could help to remove some of the mystery.
> 
> regards
> Andy Little