[boost] Re: [ANN] Interfaces Library

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-27 14:15:44

Caleb Epstein wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:57:01 -0700, Jonathan Turkanis
> <technews_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> I am pleased to announce the much anticipated (by me) release of a
>> preliminary version of my interfaces library. The download page and
>> online docs are here:
>>
>>     http://www.kangaroologic.com/interfaces/
>
> I'm very pleased to read the announcement and the docs.  What an
> amazing piece of work!

Thanks!

> I noticed some inconsistencies on this page:
>
> http://www.kangaroologic.com/interfaces/libs/interfaces/doc/guide/idl.html
> under Example III (Template Interfaces).  The paragraph says
>
> "An interface template name having template arity arity may be defined
> using the macros BOOST_IDL_BEGIN_TEMPLATE(name, arity) and
> BOOST_IDL_END_TEMPLATE(name, arity)"
>
> but the example code below it uses:
>
> BOOST_IDL_BEGIN1(IStack)
> BOOST_IDL_END1(IStack)

The sentence you quote continues:

"or using the convenience macros BOOST_IDL_BEGINz(name) and
BOOST_IDL_ENDz(name), which have the template arity z hard-wired into the macro
name" I used the convenience macros in the example code because I think they
will be more commonly used. However, I just changed it to give an example of
each form.

> There's also an indentation problem with the BOOST_IDL_BEGIN1 line (it
> is indented and should not be)

Thanks. Fixed.

Jonathan