Re: [boost] [Review] Phoenix V3: Mini-review starts February 20th

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Phoenix V3: Mini-review starts February 20th
From: Vicente Botet (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-26 08:36:02

Thomas Heller-7 wrote:
> 
> On Saturday, February 26, 2011 08:59:06 AM Vicente Botet wrote:
>> Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> > 
>> > Thomas Heller worked hard to address the outstanding issues of the
>> > original
>> > Phoenix review. He ported Phoenix to Boost.Proto. As mandated by the
>> > original Boost review, we will conduct a mini-review of his Phoenix V3
>> > library.
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> As the documentation don't states explicitly what has been changed, could
>> you give the links where we can find how the issues
>> 
>> - the breaking interface changes from v2
> The result_of protocol. Apart from phoenix::function, the frontend API 
> didn't change, phoenix::function now only recognizes Function objects 
> conforming to the result_of protocol.
> 
>> - the migration path from boost::bind and lambda to Phoenix
>> - how the interoperability with std::bind is solved (result_of semantics)
> The interoperability is fully given, all tests from the bind testsuite
> pass.
> 
>> - C++0x features such as rvalue references and variadic templates
> None of these techniques were implemented.
> 
>> - the new extensibility mechanism
> This is documented.
> 
>> - unified placeholders and interoperability issues with other Proto-based
>>   DSELs (such as Spirit.Qi, Spirit.Karma, and Xpressive)
> Unified palceholders are documented. Interoperability with other
> Proto-based 
> DSELs comes naturally with the use of proto.
> 
>> - compile times
> This is probably the weakest part of Phoenix V3 at the moment. Compile
> times 
> are slightly higher than with Phoenix V2. Keep in mind though, that
> Phoenix 
> V3 is, due to proto, able to do more. More features come at a price.
>  
>> have been addressed without taking too much time?
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> 

Yes it helps, but what I was requesting for was if you could, please, give
the links to the documentation where all these points are documented, so
people will loss less time reviewing the documentation?

Thanks,
Vicente

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