Re: [Boost-users] [fusion] sequence conversion

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-19 09:13:08

Zeljko Vrba wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:17:28PM +0200, Istvan Buki wrote:
>> Steven,
>>
>> your solution is exactly what I needed.
>> My only dream is to be able to manipulate these concepts as well as you do.
>>
> Just out of curiosity -- could you please describe your real underlying
> problem that made you turn to fusion?  The fusion manual is severely
> lacking in motivation, esp. when it comes to transformations, so any

What do you mean by transformations?

> examples from the real world are welcome.
> 
> Or, to reformulate the question: which imminent problem at hand do you have
> and what is the advantage of solving it by fusion instead of by "traditional"
> means?

Again, please define "traditional means".

> Thank you.
> 
> (PS: I have some experience with functional languages such as ML and I *do*
> know what *tuples* are useful for.. but the rest? [and the 'rest' does not
> even cover ML-style pattern matching])

What is "rest" and why should fusion cover ML-style pattern matching?

Anyway...

If anyone can suggest a motivating example and how to improve the
docs, I'd appreciate it a lot.

Cheers,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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