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Subject: Re: [boost] Formal Review of Proposed Boost.Process library
From: Gordon Woodhull (gordon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-19 17:58:13


Hi Max -

Sounds like you have a competing library? Would you consider merging?

> The Boost.Process must be implemented as a DSEL (probably through the
> Boost.Proto expression templates framework) with a nice (commonly known)
> syntax like:
> ...
> auto pipe = ls [--arg("reverse") % -arg('l') % libs] | grep ["^d"];

I think that's neat but it should be implemented as another layer on top of a functional/OO layer.

Cheers,
Gordon


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