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From: Shams (shams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-31 05:08:18
Good points raised.
What version of Boost though?
Thanks
Shams
-- "Martin Adrian" <adrianm_at_[hidden]> wrote in message news:loom.20061031T102627-559_at_post.gmane.org... >I have used the string_algo library for a long time and is used to how it >works. > Recently I had to introduce a collegue to it and started to write a > document but > it wasn't easy. > > Here is a few points: > > 1. The word predicate is used to describe anything which can return a > boolean > value. While this is technicly correct it creates confusion since there > are many > different predicates used in the library. > Example: Both trim_if and starts_with takes a PredicateT argument but they > are > not the same predicate types. > > I have found the following predicates: > - Unary token predicate: > These are all the classification predicates: is_space, is_from_range etc > - Binary token predicate: > These are the token comparison predicates: is_equal, is_iless etc > - Unary string predicate: > These are the string validation predicates: all, regex_match > - Binary string predicate: > These are the substring match predicates: starts_with, contains etc. > > Note here that the "string predicates" are different from the "token > predicates" > since they don't return functors (and can't be used directly with standard > algorithms). > > My suggestion is to clear this up in such a way that all predicate types > are > given a name (e.g. UnaryTokenPredicateT) and that they are available as > both a > free function and a boolean functor. Naming will be tricky to get right. > > is_space: > functor: boost::is_space( Locale ) > free function: std::is_space( Char, Locale ) > is_iequal: > functor: boost::is_iequal( Locale ) > free function: ??(Char1, Char2, Locale) > starts_with: > functor: ??(String, String) > free function: starts_with(String, String) > > 2. There are a number of suffixes used within the library. Here is my > interpretation: > > nosuffix: Mutable verision > _copy: const version returning a copy > _if: version using a (non-default) predicate > _regex: version using a regex predicate > _first, _last, _nth, _all, _head, _tail: for search/replace/erase > algorithms > _range: Not sure what this is supposed to mean > > Most are fine but there are some inconsistances: > - find/replace/erase algorithms can work with 2 different predicates > (token > predicate and Finder). The naming isn't consistant. > find_all takes a token predicate while make_find_iterator uses a Finder. > - trim taking a unary token predicate is called trim_if but find taking > the same > argument is called find_token > - replace with predicate is called find_format > - join taking a regex argument is called join_if > - starts_with etc use overload instead of _if suffix > > 3. There are lot of (randomly) missing algorithms. > - erase_if, erase_all_if, erase_copy_if, erase_all_copy_if taking a Finder > argument (all these are availble as replace with _formatter suffix) > - is_token, is_itoken, is_ianyof > - ifirst_finder, ilast_finder, inth_finder > - find_all and split taking a finder argument > - make_split_iterator and make_find_iterator with token predicate > > 4. Other stuff > - ilexicographical_compare is missing locale argument > - range_finder seems odd. What is the purpose? > - why is the predicate called not_greater instead of less_equal (compare > to > std::less_equal) > - regex_search_result is derived from iterator_range but iterator_range > doesn't > have a virtual destructor. It might be safe but I couldn't verify it. > - there is no special string_algo "regex_match" predicate. The regex > version is > limited to basic_string argument. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe & other changes: > http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost >
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