On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Paul A. Bristow<pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote:
Jake Voytko started this library during a 2007 GSoC and I have now expanded it quite a bit, and begun to use it for my own purposes (including preparing the plot for the Boost.Math library functions and statistical distributions).
Before I do any more work on it, I'd appreciate feedback from Boosters on how useful they think it might be, perhaps as a Boost library?
Paul (and Jake), thanks for doing this. I think it will be very useful for what I'm working on right now. I have an automated testing framework that needs to output multiple histograms and I'm currently using gnuplot for this. I have to output a data file and a script file from my program, then start the gnuplot process programmatically, which is quite cumbersome. Having histogram outputting capabilities in pure C++ sounds great! One quick question from perusing the docs. Why does the data require a 0 at the end of the sequence to mark the end, rather than just an end iterator? A sentinel value seems a little odd, but I admit I haven't made it very far into the documentation. I will definitely report back to you once I use this library, --Michael Fawcett