On 11/24/2010 1:09 PM, Edward Diener wrote:
On 11/24/2010 2:31 PM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. wrote: [...]
Questions, comments, suggestions etc. are all welcome regarding my library.
I think macro composition and argument binding like that supported in Chaos/Order (forgive me, I'm not really sure what the difference is) would be great.
Please be specific. Remember that the focus of my library was strictly to be able to use variadic macros easily along with Boost PP. I was not trying to do much more than that because I wanted to merely support what already exists in Boost PP with the addition of using variadic macros easily with it. I do not mind trying for more but I want to stay within the confines of what can be done with variadic macros to work with the current Boost PP.
To be specific: If one proposes to add an additional preprocessor library to boost, or an extension of Boost.PP, I only think one should also consider adding macro composition and argument binding, such as that in Chaos/Order or Avalanche (the [2] reference below). I brought it up under the context of limitations of the current Boost.PP interface.
Also if Chaos/Order can do these things you may want it might be a good bet that they can not be done with the many of the compilers which Boost supports.
True. How many compilers support your variadic macro library? It sounds like you've worked around many of MSVC's shortcomings, so I'm assuming most modern compilers. Perhaps I should be browsing through the docs/code...
I remember another individual posting a link to a preprocessor library in the past on the developer's mailing list that did something similar [2].
On this site I see no files which can be accessed. Perhaps there is a way to access these files via cvs but I do not see instructions for doing so.
Same question (and answer) is in one of the messages in [2] below.
[2] http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2010/01/160619.php
I do not know who this is and surely, whoever it is, he needs to put his work somewhere ( sandbox, vault ) where it can be found by others.
Agreed; I had thought I had the code stashed away somewhere but I can't seem to find it.
Thanks for your interest in my library.
Boost.PP is already really awesome, but I welcome any facilities that make preprocessor metaprogramming a little easier. - Jeff