Re: [Boost-users] [mpl] Fusion/MPL examples

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-06 11:47:42

Zeljko Vrba wrote:
> The fusion library manual gives a single example and says "this is just
> the tip of the iceberg".  I was wondering whether the slides/materials
> from the Boost Conference are available?
> 
> I'm most interested in the lectures "Boost Metaprogramming Concepts 
> and Frameworks" and "Fusion by example".
> 
> I'm in the process of (slowly) reading THE "MPL book" (by Dave and Alexei),
> but I'm looking for more "down-to-earth" examples, rather than constructing
> small DSLs or creating optimized versions of swap.  Synopses of the above
> lectures contain:
> 
> "We'll also get a taste of high-level metaprogramming abstractions by
> using several Boost metaprogramming librariesMPL, Preprocessor, and the
> Fusion tuple library to solve real problems."
> 
> "The emphasis for the examples will be on using Boost.Fusion in application
> code, rather than as infrastructure for library developers."
> 
> I'm in the process of writing a recursive data structure with very similar
> operations at every level, but still with small behavioral variations.  It
> seems like a perfect problem for metaprogramming, but I fail to map MPL's
> type manipulation routines to my down-to-earth problem.  I was hoping to
> get some more insight in MPL from the materials for the abovementioned
> lectures.  Get a new perspective and background to keep in mind while
> reading the MPL book.
> 
> So, I kindly ask Dave Abrahams, Dan Marsden and Joel de Guzman to make
> their lecture materials available on-line, if possible.

The Fusion slides were actually (now loosely) based on an article
that Dan and I wrote for Software Developer's Journal (www.sdjournal.org).
The arrangement does not limit us from publishing it ourself. Dan and
I are contemplating on either: having it somewhere in the web or
actually incorporating it in the docs as addendum to the "tip of the
iceberg". I'll let Dan speak up as he's been more of the force behind
fusion now that I'm concentrating on Spirit2.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net