----- Original Message ----- From: "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv84@gmail.com> To: "Boost Development" <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Proposal: Library to manage processes
Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote: Ok, I've just created a section in the Boost Wiki to collect ideas for
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:43 -0700, Jonathan Turkanis wrote: the library.
Great!
Please feel free to add whatever you find missing or comment on the actual stuff. (Specially about the "stream merging stuff".)
Well I am still on the fence whether I even want to use the wiki (I don't like the possibility of my comments being moved or erased), so I'll still make some comments here on the mailing list. I have some more comment operator overloading: I can sympathize with the desire to keep with tradition of shell notation, but in a programming language we have types which completely negates the need for three separate operators. In a shell, the three separate operators ( >, <, | ) are used by the shell to decide how to interpret the different arguments. However this is not needed in a (mostly) typed programming language like C++ because the type indicates how each symbol should behave in an expression. Writing code like: b | c > d < a; IMO just looks weird in C++ and is going to surprise everyone who is unfamiliar with traditional shell syntax, which is a very fast growing group of relatively young programmers who can't really be ignored. I see absolutely no reason to not move to something which is inherently more logical like: a > b > c > d Anyway, I am very pleased to see you taking the initiative on this project Julio. Christopher Diggins Object Oriented Template Library (OOTL) http://www.ootl.org