Re: [review] [STLInterfaces] STLInterfaces review starts today

From: Barrett Adair (barrettellisadair_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-16 04:46:46

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 18:21 Barrett Adair <barrettellisadair_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> Dear Boost,
>
> The formal review of Zach Laine's STLInterfaces library begins now, and
> will run through December 19. Please participate in this review if you can.
> To submit a review, please reply to this email with the following
> information:
> - Your name
> - Your knowledge of the problem domain
> - Whether you believe the library should be accepted into Boost (be clear
> about this)
>
> In addition, you are strongly encouraged to answer the following questions:
> - What is your evaluation of the library's
>   * Design?
>   * Implementation?
>   * Documentation?
>   * Tests?
>   * Usefulness?
> - Did you attempt to use the library? If so:
>   * Which compiler(s)?
>   * What was the experience? Any problems?
> - How much effort did you put into your evaluation of the review?
>
> STLInterfaces is a C++14 library targeting ISO standardization. The
> following templates are provided, all C++20-friendly:
>
> 1. iterator_interface - a modern version of the iterator_facade and
> iterator_adaptor parts of Boost.Iterator
> 2. view_interface - a pre-C++20 implementation of C++20's eponymous feature
> 3. container_interface - a tool to eliminate boilerplate when writing new
> containers
>
> We would appreciate answers to these library-specific questions:
> - Do you like the name container_interface?  sequence_container_interface
> is more precise, but seems a bit long.
> - Would you use something like container_interface, but for associative
> containers?  If so, should it assume a node-based interface, a la std::map
> and std::set?  This assumption would preclude alternative associative
> container-like types, such as flat_map.
>
> Code: https://github.com/tzlaine/stl_interfaces
> Docs: https://tzlaine.github.io/stl_interfaces/doc/html/index.html
>

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