Re: [boost] Re: Named params lib review

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-18 09:53:53

On Nov 17, 2004, at 9:46 PM, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
>  Why would I ever want to invent global
> shared name keyword and used it anytime I want parameter name amoung my
> function parameters??

Because families of functions often take similar parameters. Consider 
how many algorithms in the Graph library accept a "weight_map" 
parameter: I counted at least 8 of them. How should we handle these 
weight map parameters for all of these functions, if we don't share the 
keyword?

        Doug