Re: [boost] Monad (was: Re: [Boost-users] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO)

Subject: Re: [boost] Monad (was: Re: [Boost-users] [afio] Formal review of Boost.AFIO)
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-08-27 20:59:25

On 27 Aug 2015 at 7:43, Giovanni Piero Deretta wrote:

> >You define your policy implementations
> > classes and feed them to basic_monad<Policy> or basic_future<Policy>
> > as needed. The library itself provides three monad specialisations
> > and six future specialisations by stamping out the nine policies for
> > each of those.
> 
> Unfortunately the documentation for the policy is literally an empty line.
> I have looked at the detail/monad_policy.hpp file, but beyond customising
> the storage, I can't see any hook to customise the behaviour.
> 
> Could you show us a custom policy implementation for a list monad?

As I mentioned earlier, it's not a full monadic programming solution 
by any stretch. Think of it as a value transporter with monadic 
extensions, very similar to the Rust Monad.

Niall

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