Re: [boost] [egg] Review (at last)

From: shunsuke (pstade.mb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-19 05:26:12

Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:
> [ sorry for the delay, it was general election time here in Italy and
> I had to return home for voting ]
> 
> 
> - What is your evaluation of the design?
<snip/>
> - Please always state in your review, whether you think the library should be
> accepted as a Boost library!
> 
> Yes, but only after a mini review of the documentation only. I believe
> that the author will be able to come up with an excellent
> documentation.

Thank you.

> - Final comments
> 
> Unfortunately I think that with so few reviews (just mine for now?),
> the library will have an hard time getting into Boost at this
> time. Probably the author didn't do a good job at selling it, even if
> many expressed interest in the past.
> 
> If the library were to be rejected, I think that the author should
> resubmit a just a subset of it for inclusion, which would have a far greater
> chance to be appreciated and evaluated in a short time.
> 
> This subset, IMHO, should concentrate on stateless function objects
> and should at least contain:
<snip/>
> Other advanced features, like pipability and infix notation (I like
> this one!) could then be evaluated once the basic functionality has
> been sold :). So should more hard-core functional capabilities like
> memoization and the fix point combinator. Support for static
> initialization of function objects could also come in a second time.

It would be a good idea.
But I'm going to give up mainly because of lack of interests
and documentation skills.

Regards,

-- 
Shunsuke Sogame