Dave Gomboc <dave@cs.ualberta.ca> writes:
I'm revisiting Czarnecki and Eisenecker's work (Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications) from 2000. I'm wondering what is available in boost that exploits (or even advances) on the techniques and code examples given there.
Umm... everything? Well, almost everything. C&E gallop over so much terrain that it's pretty hard not to coincide with something they discussed.
It occurs to me that both the concept_check and the mpl library have something to offer in this respect. At the very least, there are few obvious things (e.g. if, apply_if, etc. in mpl). Is anyone actively applying boost code in this area?
I'm not sure what your question is. Generative programming itself is a design process/idiom. I can't really imagine how you'd directly support it with a library, though of course we have lots of tools in Boost that can be used to practice generative programming.
(I did find a series of posts from February 2002 on this topic, but not much since then.)
Maybe if you'd post a link to the other discussion I'd be able to figure out what this one's about ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com