Re: [boost] [parameter] Tutorial checked in

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-16 08:50:47

"Pavel Chikulaev" <pavel.chikulaev_at_[hidden]> writes:

> "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
> news:ud5pjfsi6.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
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>> I don't know what you mean; compilable examples, maybe?
> And these too.
>
>> I haven't gotten around to applying my LitRe example testing and
>> extraction system to it yet.
> I mean such style of familiarization with library is only for the first time, no 
> one ever
> going to read it again completely, and complete code of tutorial in one place 
> instead of scattered parts is very good when someone needs to remember all 
> features of boost.parameter.
>
>> Of course, once we have BOOST_AUTO in the CVS, something like that
>> could be used.  That *might* be worth mentioning in the tutorial
>> someday.  OTOH, the uses of BOOST_AUTO are so broad that we'd have to
>> sprinkle "Oh, BTW, BOOST_AUTO might be useful here" throughout the
>> documentation of many many Boost libraries.
> Is it possible to add such macro now, I mean even now when we don't have 
> boost.typeof in boost?...

No.  We're in feature freeze.

>>> no compatibility issues,
>> Compatibility issues are discussed throughout the tutorial.
> That's not a good place them IMHO. Copy/Paste it.

I'll consider doing that, thanks.

>>> and page for "might be useful" headers of other libraries...
>> I have no clue what "might be useful," and none of our other libraries
>> have such a page.  I don't expect I'll be doing that, at least not for
>> 1.33.
> The headers of other libraries you have used in your code, 

How is that different from "dependencies" you requested below?

> and maybe some other we still don't know about them...

That's still way too vague for me to understand what I should write or
why I should write it.

>>> And maybe dependencies...
>> I don't think I'll be doing that either.  I think bcp is the way to
>> get that information.
> Ok.
>
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