Hello John! Hello Tobias! Is there any link to the docs, where I can view them online? I would like first see the docs online before I decide to download/install the lib. Many thanks, Ovanes On 12/3/07, John Torjo wrote:

Hi all,

The formal review of the Boost.Functional/Forward library, proposed by Tobias Schwinger, begins today :

Boost.Functional/Forward provides decorator function objects to have an n-ary, generic function object accept both RValues and mutable LValues.

An exponential number of overloads is needed with C98, so redundant solutions are highly undesirable. Functional/Forward is a reusable implementation asking to live in a central place in Boost.

Download it from here:

http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=forward.zip&directory=X-Files&

http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=X-Files

The documentation is included in the .zip file, in the usual place: forward/libs/functional/forward/doc/html/index.html

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Here are some questions you might want to answer in your review:

* What is your evaluation of the design? * What is your evaluation of the implementation? * What is your evaluation of the documentation? * What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? * Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have any problems? * How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? * Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

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Some users asked for the docs to be posted online. So, here they are: http://www.torjo.com/tobias/ John Torjo - Review Manager -

Hi all,

The formal review of the Boost.Functional/Forward library, proposed by Tobias Schwinger, begins today :

Boost.Functional/Forward provides decorator function objects to have an n-ary, generic function object accept both RValues and mutable LValues.

An exponential number of overloads is needed with C98, so redundant solutions are highly undesirable. Functional/Forward is a reusable implementation asking to live in a central place in Boost.

Download it from here:

http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=forward.zip&directory=X-Files& http://www.boost-consulting.com/vault/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=X-Files

-- http://John.Torjo.com -- C++ expert ... call me only if you want things done right

John Torjo wrote:

* What is your evaluation of the design?

simple and effective. I'd like to see more tweakable parameters for specific uses. I frequently deal with different number expansions in a case to case basis. For example, is it possible to have arity 3 for function X and arity-5 for function Y? A single number seems wasteful if I'm sure that a certain use needs only a few. Is that possible?

* What is your evaluation of the implementation?

again, simple and effective.

* What is your evaluation of the documentation?

concise and sufficient for its purpose. I'd like to see more information on result type deduction though. It says: "Boost.ResultOf can be used to determine the result types of specific call expressions.". Ok, but what does that really imply? It would be good to have some information on this and its implications. For instance, for polymorphic function objects, do we have to supply all the nested /result/ metafunction for all overloads? How can the forward_adapter template know what to return? Etc. A more useful example would be one that actually returns something (instead of just void). I'd like to see an example for a polymorphic function.

* What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library?

It's been in use in fusion for quite some time now. Very useful. Without this, and before this, we had to resort to lots of code duplication with tons of macro expansions everywhere.

* Did you try to use the library? With what compiler?

It's been part of fusion which is already well tested.

Did you have any problems?

Nope.

* How much effort did you put into your evaluation?

As main author of fusion, I do a review of all code and components going into fusion.

A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study?

See above.

* Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?

Yes.

And finally, every review should answer this question:

* Do you think the library should be accepted as a Boost library? Be sure to say this explicitly so that your other comments don't obscure your overall opinion.

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