Re: [boost] [lambda] current status

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-15 00:59:12

Christopher Currie wrote:
> It is rumored that Joel de Guzman uttered the following:
> 
>>Jaakko and I are collaborating and it will
>>be the basis of the LL/Phoenix merger. This should happen very
>>soon now as things are progressing very quickly thanks to some
>>help from Daniel Wallin and Dan Marsden.
> 
> 
> This being the case, is there any point to any incremental work on BLL 
> as it currently exists? I was talking with Gary Powell offline, and he'd 
> said at some point there had been a desire to see BLL leverage more of 
> MPL in its implementation, and I'd thought about taking some time to see 
> if I could help in that direction. It doesn't make much sense, though, 
> if P-2 is the Wave of the future.

Of course, Jaakko will have the final say on this. In any case,
as far as Phoenix-2 is concerned, we're already very close to
release as the remaining bits and pieces fall into place,
thanks to Dan Marsden who did most of the final chores.
Phoenix-2 already (heavily) leverages MPL and its half-runtime
counterpart fusion.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
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