[boost] Re: [Review] Named parameters library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-13 06:45:39

"Pavel Vozenilek" <pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:cn4k2u$a9n$2_at_sea.gmane.org...
| "Thorsten Ottosen" wrote:
|
| > - What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the  library?
| > ---------
| > low
| >
| >
| There are quantities of people who have
| specialized domain knowledge
| and "some programming skill".
|
| These people could use their knowledge
| if they are provided with easy to use
| procedural API infrastructure.
|
| Named parameters could help to keep
| such procedural interface useable.

I'm just questioning how much programming skill that is needed to understand
object.foo(). I don't think its harder and you don't have forwarding problems
which is going to take some time
for novices to understand (ie, to learn to use ref()).

-Thorsten.