On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Robert Ramey <ramey@rrsd.com> wrote:
It's not such a bad idea - but it's an entirely different idea than what boost is. I think we're in agreement here.
Off topic - but I'll make a couple of comments on the C++ Cookbook ideal
Actually this exists. I simply troll the net for "C++ base64 source code" and I get a bunch of hits. I didn't look into them but I would hope/expect that there would be something similar to that which has been proposed. I would look at them, and perhaps copy one of them out and into my code. This is fine, works fine, and solves my problem.
IMO it's not fine. It's a recipe for big scale code duplication. If the same function appears in tons of C++ apps it's IMO a sign that some lib is lacking. Olaf