Re: [boost] [Hana] Formal review

Subject: Re: [boost] [Hana] Formal review
From: edouard_at_[hidden]
Date: 2015-06-22 02:34:05

> Understood. I too did not like single headers, and I know exactly what you
> mean.
> I've split all headers to be as fine grained as possible. I've come to realize,
> however, that in some cases, this is good! There are cases where, in most uses,
> you will certainly need all the core functionality anyway that it makes sense to
> just group them all together. I'm totally fine with a few header files with
> another forwarding header that groups the core --same thing. What's essential
> is keeping the core to a minimum.

You can have both, split headers and then aggregate that into bigger headers and then aggregate those aggregations into an #include <omg.hpp>.

However when headers are too fine grained it's almost impossible for the user of a library to know what should be included.

Regards.

--Edouard