Proto for Boost mailing list page: Re: [proto] Visitor Design Pattern

Subject: Re: [proto] Visitor Design Pattern
From: Thomas Heller (thom.heller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-23 13:45:10

On Saturday 23 October 2010 19:30:18 Eric Niebler wrote:
> On 10/23/2010 10:12 AM, Eric Niebler wrote:
> > I've tweaked both the traversal example you sent around as well as my
> > over toy Phoenix. Tell me what you guys think.
> 
> Actually, I think it's better to leave the definition of "some_rule"
> alone and wrap it in "named_rule" at the point of use. A bit cleaner.
> See attached.

I like that.
With that named_rule approach, we have some kind of in code documentation: 
Look, here that rule is a customization point.
Why not just rule? Less characters to type.