The review of Assignment Library library, written by Thorsten Ottosen 2003 (nesotto@cs.auc.dk) starts today(April 1, 2004)and runs for 10 days. Latest version of the library is available at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/assignment/ (204 kB) or in the sandbox. What it is? The purpose of this library is to make it easy to fill containers with data by overloading operator the comma, () and operator()(). Example: To fill a vector with values you write: #include <boost/assign/stl.hpp// for operator+=() #include <vector> using namespace std; using namespace boost::assignment; vector<intvalues; values += 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9; values += foo1(), foo2(), foo3(); History of the project: The idea for an initialization library is not new . The functionality of this library resembles Leor Zolman's STL Container Initialization Library a great deal, but it does not rely on string passing to achieve its goals. The library is non-intrusive and puts only a minimum of requirements on its supported classes. (change classes to types) The Initialization Library overloads the comma operator in a safe manner by letting free standing functions return an object that is responsible for the initialization. Therefore it takes explicit action from the programmer to begin using the overloaded operator,(). The operator comma is never overloaded for user-defined types. Portability: Library has been successfully compiled and tested with MVC++ 6.0, MVC++ 7.0, MVC++ 7.1, GCC 3.2 (under Cygwin) Comeau 4.3.0.1, Intel ICC 7.1 and Intel ICC 8.0. There are known limitation on platforms not supporting partial template specialization. Review Comments: Your review comments are welcomed. Found problems and suggestions for documentation are highly sought. Requests for new features requests will shape the way this library will evolve in future. 1. Where should the main libraries header files be placed. This is header only library and should be fairly easy to manage.Should it be placed in the utilty folder or its own folder? 2. Should the headers be broken up? This library has extensions to boost::array, boost::ublas and boost::graph. Should those headers be placed in their respective folder or kept together with the headers associated with the main Assignment library headers. Or, should the boost library extensions remain just as examples of how to extend the library. 3. Should the fixed_size_asssigner only throw on out_of_bounds exception or should it default initialize the remainning elements? Two classes can throw an exception in their destructor. This is done when detecting eg. a boost::array has not been initialized with enough elements. Should this be replaced by default initializing the remaining elements? 4. This library needs to use the boost test framework. Review Manager Tom Brinkman reportbase@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/