Re: [boost] [Review] Phoenix review starts today, September 21st

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Phoenix review starts today, September 21st
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-29 22:26:51

Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Giovanni Piero Deretta
> <gpderetta_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Note that I think that the extension interface (and its documentation)
>> is the most important part of Phoenix because, IMHO, it is where the
>> "added value" with respect to boost.lambda lies.
>>
>> The best solution would be that the implementation that goes into
>> boost will be based on proto *and* will retain more or less the same
>> extension interface.
> 
> I agree that extensibility via Proto is an important innovation, and

Just to be clear: the phoenix extension mechanism has been in place
from day one (since phoenix1). It is a hallmark of the design that
has proven to be very powerful. It allowed us to extend the library
in a modular manner non-intrusively. All libraries I have written
since then has incorporated some form of extension mechanism. The
API basically has two parts, one is the general user API, one is the
extension API.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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