-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Schwinger
There should be some sort of disclaimer in the documentation of Boost.PP that mentions that the design is most unfortunately influenced by the bad quality of some widely used preprocessors. Otherwise there will be false conclusions that pp-metaprogramming is either ugly by definition or that there is something wrong with the design of the library...
Well, the design is certainly influenced by typical preprocessors. However, the design is not completely inelegant. The fundamental problems with the design of the library as is are more related to a lack of an extensibility model. Even with preprocessors the way they are, I still could hide all of the algorithm states completely, and that would make everything more usable, but it would also make everything slower (to varying degrees on various preprocessors). I'll address your comments about the article in a separate post. I re-rendered the entire article as plain text from the XML source, mailed it to myself to make it quote correctly, replied by inserting your comments. Thus, the entire article will be in my reply, all of your quotes, and my responses to them. Regards, Paul Mensonides