Re: [Boost-users] General Boost documentation

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-23 18:25:52

Jeff Garland wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:23:21 +1000, John Krajewski wrote
>> I'm new to generic programming and finding the various concepts used 
>> in Boost quite confusing (named parameters, property maps, etc).  Is 
>> there general documentation for the programming methods used in 
>> Boost?  Perhaps a good book to buy?
> 
> Hmm, there's a few books on various aspects of Boost now, but I don't think
> they are going to help in this case.  Let's take these one by one:
> 
> named parameters -- This is a library that allows a developer to write a
> function that instead of using positions, uses names to distinguish the
> parameters.  See:
> 
> http://www.boost.org/libs/parameter/doc/html/index.html
> 
> Proprety Map -- Also a library designed to hold a set of properties -- mostly
> used in conjunction with Boost.Graph.

It is actually a general purpose library for mapping a set of values of 
a particular type to another set of values of a particular type, where 
the types may be the same or different.