Re: [boost] GSoC 2010: Heaps and Queues

Subject: Re: [boost] GSoC 2010: Heaps and Queues
From: Dan Larkin (danielhlarkin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-09 12:24:24

I guess I should also say that I do understand that writing concepts is 
not a top-down process in general; however, in this case, given that 
heaps are well-documented theoretically and that Boost already has a few 
different heap implementations lacking a proper concept (or perhaps 
rather needing an improved one is more accurate), it's not entirely 
top-down here either.  In this case, writing a concept first is 
partially top-down from the theory perspective and partially bottom-up 
from the learning from other implementations perspective.  From that 
concept then, which should be relatively balanced and involve much less 
guesswork than usual due to the bidirectional approach, can be used as 
top-down guidance for library development.

There, I think that got my point across a little better than my 
impassioned rambling from earlier this morning.  Hopefully that thought 
process at least makes sense, even if you don't agree with it?

Dan Larkin