Re: [Boost-users] Library Interface Design

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-14 07:41:00

Scott Meyers wrote:

> I'm suspicious of a design for a EventLog that seems to require a
> stream to be useful, yet still allows a EventLog to be created
> without one, but this seems to be contrary to the advice of a book on
> how to design an application framework from the people who are
> responsible for designing one of the most used APIs in existence
> (.NET).

I'm still not sure how can you test an EventLog without a stream. What do 
you test? The default constructor and the destructor? Isn't the whole 
purpose of the EventLog to output something into its stream?