Re: [boost] [function types] Formal Review begins today.

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-19 01:01:38

John Maddock wrote:
> The Formal Review of the Function Types Library begins today, and
> runs until 16th June 2005.
>
> Author: Tobias Schwinger
> tschwinger_at_[hidden]
>
> Available from the sandbox at:
> http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/
> or the zip file is:
>
http://boost-sandbox.sourceforge.net/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=function_types.zip&directory=&
>
> This library provides a metaprogramming facility
> to classify, decompose and synthesize function-,
> function pointer-, function reference- and
> member function pointer types. For the purpose
> of this documentation, these types are
> collectively referred to as function
> types (this differs from the standard
> definition and redefines the term from
> a programmer's perspective to refer to
> the most common types that involve functions).
>
> The classes introduced by this library
> shall conform to the concepts of the
> Boost Metaprogramming library (MPL).
>
> The Function Types library enables the user to:
> * test an arbitrary type for
>         being a function type of specified kind,
> * inspect properties of function types,
> * view and modify sub types of an
>         encapsulated function type with
>         MPL Sequence operations, and
> * synthesize function types.
>
> This library supports variadic functions and
> can be configured to support
> non-default calling conventions.
>
> (The following is taken from :
> http://www.boost.org/more/formal_review_process.htm )
>
> Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:
>
> What is your evaluation of the design?
> What is your evaluation of the implementation?
> What is your evaluation of the documentation?
> What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?
> Did you try to use the library?  With what compiler?  Did you have any
> problems?
> How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick
> reading? In-depth study?
> Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
>
> And finally, every review should answer this question:
>
> Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library?  Be
> sure to say
> this explicitly so that your other comments don't obscure your overall
> opinion.
>
> John Maddock
> (Function Types review manager).
>
>
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