Re: [boost] Property tree rev.5

From: Klaus Nowikow (nowikow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-11 07:17:32

David Abrahams <dave <at> boost-consulting.com> writes:

> "Marcin Kalicinski" <kalita <at> poczta.onet.pl> writes:
> 
> > Property tree library revision 5 (review version) is now in the boost vault. 
> > Documentation can be viewed online at http://kaalus.atspace.com/ptree
> 
> What is the rationale for using the word "property" here?
> 
> Why is this data structure not a more generic tree?  It seems as
> though forcing the data on a tree node to be a specialization of
> basic_string is needlessly limiting.

That reminds me of Dave Handley's implementation of a composite pattern
library, see
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/2301865

Maybe it would be harder to implement all the file read/write functions
with this one, though.

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Klaus Nowikow