Hello all, On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Lorenzo Caminiti <lorcaminiti@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Lorenzo Caminiti <lorcaminiti@gmail.com> wrote:
*** The review of Steven Watanabe's proposed Boost.TypeErasure library begins on July 18, 2012 and ends on July 27, 2012. ***
*** Boost.TypeErasure review ends in 5 days. Please submit your reviews :D ***
*** Boost.TypeErasure review ends today July 27, 2012. If you are planning to submit a review, please do so as soon as possible. *** Thank you to everyone who has commented on the library and submitted a review so far! The review manager, --Lorenzo P.S. I am considering extending the review until end of day Sunday July 29, 2012... I will keep you posted.
There have been interesting discussions on the library on the ML but I have not received any official review yet :( Especially if you are a user of Boost Any, Function, and Any Iterator, you definitely want to take a look at Type Erasure as it generalizes solutions provided by those other libraries.
Thank you.
The review manager. --Lorenzo
THE LIBRARY
C++ provides runtime polymorphism through virtual functions. They are a very useful feature, but they do have some limitations. * They are intrusive. In generic programming, we can design an interface which allows third-party types to be adapted to it. * They require dynamic memory management. Of course, most of the problems can be avoided by using an appropriate smart pointer type. Even so, it still acts like a pointer rather than a value. * Virtual functions' ability to apply multiple independent concepts to a single object is limited. The Boost.TypeErasure library solves these problems allowing us to mirror static generic programming at runtime.
Library source: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/type_erasure/
Pre-built documentation: http://steven_watanabe.users.sourceforge.net/type_erasure/libs/type_erasure/
You can also download archives with pre-built documentation from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/steven-watanabe.u/files/
YOUR REVIEW
Please submit a review to the mailing-list by replying to this email ("[boost] [type_erasure] Review ..." should be in the subject).
Please state clearly whether you think this library should be accepted as a Boost library.
Other questions you may want to consider: 1. What is your evaluation of the design? 2. What is your evaluation of the implementation? 3. What is your evaluation of the documentation? 4. What is your evaluation of the potential usefulness of the library? 5. Did you try to use the library? With what compiler? Did you have any problems? 6. How much effort did you put into your evaluation? A glance? A quick reading? In-depth study? 7. Are you knowledgeable about the problem domain?
Thanks in advance to all who participate in the review discussion -- I'm looking forward to it!