"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message:
Jonathan Turkanis's Iostreams library has been accepted into boost.
I'd like to thank everyone who particpated in the review, and Jeff for acting as review manager. "Dylan Trotter" <trotterdylan@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:cjjtc1$243$1@sea.gmane.org...
6) Presidential filter example While many of us see the humor in this, there was at least one objection to introducing 'political comedy' into boost. Overall, the example should be renamed and reformulated since in a few years no one will get the joke anyway. Sorry to go politically correct here, but boost needs to be above the fray.
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So while there may have been at least one complaint, let me be (perhaps one of) the first to praise the Presidential Filter example as a good joke
Thanks.
and as a good example.
Thanks again.
I know praise doesn't count as much as complaining in the world these days. Unfortunately this means that good things are often thrown away in our zeal to make the complainers shut up and thus I'm sure the Presidential Filter example will never again show up in Boost.
One thing that became clear during the review is that instead of short descriptions of filters together with links to the filters, example programs and sample output I need to write fully annotated examples where I step through the code and explain what is happening at each point. In particular, I plan to write a section on writing filters which perform word substitution using a dictionary; this will be a good way to illustrate the differences between the various types of filters. For this purpose it doesn't really matter what key, value pairs the dictionary contains. I may use the usenet abbreviations. While I'm sorry to see the presidential example go -- it looks like it will probably be relevant for another 28 dog years -- I understand and accept Jeff's rationale. Jonathan