On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Joel de Guzman <joel@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
On 2/4/2011 12:29 PM, Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
Local should be viewed as being complimentary to Phoenix rather competing with it, and it should be evaluated on its own merits.
I think I have to agree with this. In as much as we have Boost-FOREACH in addition to std::for_each, Boost.Local is a good and useful library that is simple, practical and effective enough as it is. http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
I also honestly think that Boost.Local and Boost.Phoenix cover different application domains. I can spell that out in the library docs if Boosters come to the same conclusion. I compared Boost.Local with Boost.Phoenix just because they can both be used to write functor objects (like many other libraries can) but I would chose to use one over the other depending on the my specific application needs (e.g., can I accept a non normal C++ syntax for the body? do I need the extra functional programming power offered by Phoenix? etc). -- Lorenzo