Re: [boost] Rave for proposed Boost.Local (functions)

Subject: Re: [boost] Rave for proposed Boost.Local (functions)
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-02 19:19:30

On 2/3/11 7:13 AM, Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> Doing anything non-trivial with Phoenix requires creating lazy functions
> beforehand (typically done at namespace scope).
> The fact that Phoenix itself bundles many lazy functions for any other
> container member and standard algorithm (for a total of 4,000 lines of
> code for that task alone) is testament to that; you can't really work
> with it otherwise.

If you unwrap the macros from Boost.Local, something like a
Phoenix.function will emerge. So, why not just provide a phoenix
macro to give you the same level of verbosity and the same level
of debuggability and c++ syntax error handling?

It is trivial to write such a macro in phoenix.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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