Re: [boost] [functors] proposal

On 10/22/2013 4:16 PM, Piotr Wygocki wrote:

Hi, I've developed a small set of functors and functor adaptors. Although this code is very simple it might be very useful for some subset of the community.

Do you think it might become a part of the boost library? If not I'm still very interested in any feedback. I think it's not big enough to be a separate library. To my knowledge of boost it fits in the utility lib.

The code can be found here:

https://github.com/wygos/functors

List of utilities:

SkipFunctor takes any number of arguments; does completely nothing

ReturnSomethingFunctor takes any number of arguments; returns t;

IdentityFunctor takes one parameter and returns it.

ReturnFalseFunctor takes any number of arguments; returns false;

ReturnTrueFunctor takes any number of arguments; returns true;

ReturnZeroFunctor takes any number of arguments; returns 0;

AssertFunctor takes any number of arguments; asserts;

ArrayToFunctor<Array> Stores an object which provides operator[]. Provides operator()().

A set of non-template comparison functors (only operator() is templated): * Greater * Less * GreaterEqual * LessEqual * EqualTo * NotEqualTo

FunctorToComparator This comparator takes a functor "f" and a comparator "c". For elements (x,y) it returns c(f(x), f(y)) c is Less by default

FunctorToOutputIterator<Functor> The output iterator stores a functor and each time the operator= is called the given functor is called

Logical operators as functors: * Not * Or * And * Xor

LiftBinaryOperatorFunctor Functor stores a binary operator "o" and two functors "f" and "g". For given arguments args returns o(f(args), g(args)).

Boolean functor adapters. Each of them stores a boolean functor and performs an appropriate logical operation in the operator().

* NotFunctor<Functor> * OrFunctor * AndFunctor * XorFunctor

Are you aware of Boost.Phoenix ( or its predecessor Boost.Lambda ) ? Also some of the functors appear to duplicate functors in the C++ standard library in functional. Logical Xor ? New and useful functors are always welcome but please look at Phoenix first. If you feel you still have new functors maybe you can talk to the Phoenix developers to see if they will fit in Phoenix, or submit your library if there is enough interest by others.

Regards,

Piotr

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