----- Original Message ----- From: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> To: "Boost Development" <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Proposal: Library to manage processes
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:43 -0700, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: Ok, I've just created a section in the Boost Wiki to collect ideas for the library.
Great!
Please feel free to add whatever you find missing or comment on the actual stuff. (Specially about the "stream merging stuff".)
Well I am still on the fence whether I even want to use the wiki (I don't like the possibility of my comments being moved or erased), so I'll still make some comments here on the mailing list. I have some more comment operator overloading: I can sympathize with the desire to keep with tradition of shell notation, but in a programming language we have types which completely negates the need for three separate operators. In a shell, the three separate operators ( >, <, | ) are used by the shell to decide how to interpret the different arguments. However this is not needed in a (mostly) typed programming language like C++ because the type indicates how each symbol should behave in an expression. Writing code like: b | c > d < a; IMO just looks weird in C++ and is going to surprise everyone who is unfamiliar with traditional shell syntax, which is a very fast growing group of relatively young programmers who can't really be ignored. I see absolutely no reason to not move to something which is inherently more logical like: a > b > c > d Anyway, I am very pleased to see you taking the initiative on this project Julio. Christopher Diggins Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL) http://www.ootl.org