Hi Phil, On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Phil Endecott <spam_from_boost_dev@chezphil.org> wrote:
Hi Lubomir,
Lubomir Bourdev wrote:
I think the discussion here is not free functions vs classes but whether or not to maintain a state. Please note that both you and Christian use classes to maintain the state; Christian simply wraps the classes into free functions for simple things like read and write an entire image. But to do something more complicated, such as read the image in parts, one can simply build that functionality using the classes directly.
I've not noticed these classes and this functionality in Christian's code; could you point out which code you're referring to?
Each backend defines a reader< format_tag > class which is derived from reader_base. Same goes for when writing images. Does that answer your question? Christian