Re: [boost] [review] Fusion review, finalization

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-10 20:12:49

Tobias Schwinger wrote:
> Tobias Schwinger wrote:

>> I'm still playing with it and hope I can add some details here, soon.
>>
> I wanted to use Fusion to write something (well, at least half-way)
> real for review, so I chose to solve this problem:
> 
>  Call one of a heterogenous set of functors (their call operators might 
>  be templates) based on a runtime index with a complexity of O(log N) 
>  (basically what an n-ary tree structure of nested switch/case blocks
>  does).
> 
> The solution
> o handles unary functors only and doesn't bother with the result (simplicity),
> o contains numerous workarounds and is far away from being perfect,
> o requires an MPL-patch [ http://tinyurl.com/ljfdm] to compile, but
> o nevertheless documents my fight with the library, hopefully including 
>lots of mistakes a new user is tempted to make, so it might work good to 
inspire upcomnig examples.
> 
>  http://tinyurl.com/l5bxl  (source file in the vault)

Very cool! That might be a good example for a tutorial if you are
willing to document and share it. In fact, I need something like
that in Spirit-2 (but I need the result and more args).

> Fusion rocks!

Thanks! Kind words like that make all those long coding nights
all worth while! :)

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