[boost] Re: Re: [Review] Named parameters library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-13 06:42:14

"Noah Stein" <noah_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:200411121528426.SM00924_at_enki...
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]
| > On Behalf Of Thorsten Ottosen
| > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:47 PM
| > To: boost_at_[hidden]
| > Subject: [boost] Re: [Review] Named parameters library
|
|
| > 1. Clearly, this is not nice
| >
| > window* w = new_window("alert", true, true, false, 77, 65);
| >
| > However, the amount of work needed to code parameters for this is quite
| > large.
| > A simple, effective way is just to do it like this:
| >
| > window* w = new_window("alert");
| > w->set_resizable( true );
| > w->set_height( 77 );
| > ....
| > and you might provide chaining to make it more concise. In addition there
| > is
| > no forwarding problems and you might have these
| > functions anyway.
| >
|
| What about the situation where you need to specify the parameters at
| construction, e.g. the RAII paradigm?

I don't think I understand what you're saying.

-Thorsten