Re: [boost] [intro] Preview: Introspection library

Subject: Re: [boost] [intro] Preview: Introspection library
From: David Sankel (camior_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-29 17:25:03

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Stefan Strasser <strasser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> I'd be interested in comments on an introspection library I've been developing.

You may find paper "Scrap++: Scrap Your Boilerplate in C++"[1] to be
interesting for ideas. One thing that confuses me about your library
is I don't know whether the reflections are semantic or syntactic. I
do think a clear separation of syntax and semantics is important to
writing clear code. Perhaps you can show what a shared_ptr
"implementation of the concept" looks like?

Fusion's adapters, which are purely syntactic, are perfect for what
I've needed so far. Syntactically speaking, are you adding anything
besides data inheritance?

[1] http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1159861.1159871

-David

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