Re: [boost] Egg review result

From: shunsuke (pstade.mb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-19 18:52:53

Daniel Walker wrote:
> But perhaps more important than the documentation, I think there could
> be a lot of beneficial synergy between Egg, and the discussions
> arising from Marco's multi-signature function. Egg is addressing a
> somewhat higher level problem than the problem of accommodating
> builtin functions along with polymorphic function objects, but it
> seems to me that there's still some overlap.  For example, how cool
> would it be if you could defer builtin functions to use them with
> fusion? With a little work, parts of Egg could feel right at home in a
> library that offered this sort of functionality. This combination
> could be much better than just Egg on it's own - strip out some of
> Egg's less compelling features and fold what's left into a new project
> with Marco and I - the whole could be greater than the sum of its
> parts!

Egg experimentally contained a multi-signature function adaptor.
Here is an example: http://tinyurl.com/68luzd
It doesn't perform type-erasure, so I'm not sure there is an overlap.

Regards,

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Shunsuke Sogame