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. http://www.boost.org/libs/property_map/property_map.html I think if you read the documentation for these libraries it will all be clearer. HTH, Jeff