Re: [boost] [parameter] missing link in main page and libraries.htm?

From: Cromwell Enage (sponage_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-27 18:18:08

--- David Abrahams wrote:
> Cromwell Enage writes:
> > Implementation-wise, 
> 
> The implementation details are irrelevant to the
user
> who wants to find a library for a specific purpose,

Okay.

> > If you want to make a new category, I'd go for
> > "Patterns and Idioms".  Boost.Parameter can be
> > described as a mechanism that encapsulates the
> > named-parameter idiom
> >
<http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.18>
> > as well as the unnamed-parameter idiom (wherever
> > that's described).  The Singleton library, if and
> > when it's accepted, can also fit in this category.
> 
> Maybe.  It seems awfully general to me.  Why group
> patterns and idioms together?

IMHO, as far as a programmer is concerned, they do the
same thing: encapsulate most of the tedious steps
required to reuse a programming technique.  If that
sounds like "Generic Programming", then perhaps that's
where Boost.Parameter belongs.

In another email:
> The category I'm thinking of is not exactly
> "functional programming" so much as "building and
> using function interfaces."

Then put it under "UI building" also ;)

                              Cromwell D. Enage

                
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