Hi Greg (& Lorenzo), Gregory Crosswhite wrote:
The purpose of this e-mail is to rave about Lorenzo's proposed Boost.Local library in the hopes of inspiring people to start the review process for it. :-)
I have been experimenting with using this library in my own code, and it has been a godsend for me. In one of the projects I have been working on I ran into many situations where I needed to call a higher-order function with a closure, and the closure was just complicated enough that I couldn't use Boost.Lambda. Before using this library I frequently found myself either writing a lot of extra code to work-around the need for a higher-order function, or writing a lot of boilerplate to create classes that would only be used by a single function in order to create a function object. This library has let me write the closures that I need in a fairly painless fashion and so has made my life a lot easier!
Do you have any thoughts about how lambdas in C++0x compare for your problems? I guess I'm thinking, how useful is this going to be in a couple of years when hopefully we all have C++0x compilers? Could this be seen as a sort of "C++0x lambda emulation" library? I don't think it's really quite the same, though... Regards, Phil.