[boost] Re: Formal Review: FOREACH macro

From: Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) (SeeWebsiteForEmail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-04 20:34:20

Joel wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> So what I was trying to say was, the point at which I will veer away 
>> from pp-based programming to other tools happens earlier than others'.
> 
> 
> Interesting. At which "point" might that be? For example, which of the
> PP based libraries in boost would you consider using external tools?

My point would be before the PP library itself. I do, however, 
understand the attraction of having the compile process take care of it 
all. But "however however", building boost doesn't have to obey that 
scarcity. So I think it's entirely reasonable that building boost might 
generate C++ using *other* tools. I bet such an approach would lead to 
more maintainable and easy-to-understand code (only requiring knowledge 
of general tools that should be in a boost developer's toolchest anyway) 
instead of using the PP programming paradigm, of which learning I 
believe is less rewarding.

Cheers,

Andrei