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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Local Review - comments by Andrzej
From: Lorenzo Caminiti (lorcaminiti_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-15 13:15:27


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Andrzej Krzemienski
<akrzemi1_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Just one more thought.
> I was not participating in the design discussion for Boost.Local when it
> was probably a better time to mention this. So I am just mentioning it for
> reference. Functions that take parameters and bind existing objects are
> called closures:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_%28computer_science%29.>
> This could have been an alternative name for BOOST_LOCAL_FUNCTION:
> BOOST_SCOPE_CLOSURE...

Good point. I'll ask this question as part of the naming discussion in
the other email thread.

--Lorenzo


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