-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Thorsten Ottosen Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:47 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Re: [Review] Named parameters library
1. Clearly, this is not nice
window* w = new_window("alert", true, true, false, 77, 65);
However, the amount of work needed to code parameters for this is quite large. A simple, effective way is just to do it like this:
window* w = new_window("alert"); w->set_resizable( true ); w->set_height( 77 ); .... and you might provide chaining to make it more concise. In addition there is no forwarding problems and you might have these functions anyway.
What about the situation where you need to specify the parameters at construction, e.g. the RAII paradigm? -- Noah