The function-types "fast track" review begins monday, November 6, 2006. Author ------------------------------------------- Tobias Schwinger tschwinger AT neoscientists DOT org Download ------------------------------------------- http://tinyurl.com/qaf5f Introduction -------------------------------------------- Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member function types. In other words, the library can be used to: - test whether a type is a specific callable builtin type, - extract all component properties from callable builtin types, and - create callable builtin types from specified properties. The library is designed to work well with other Boost libraries and uses well-accepted concepts introduced by Boost and TR1. Templates that encapsulate boolean or numeric properties define a static member constant called value. Examples ---------------------------------------------- is_function_pointer< bool(*)(int) >::value // == true function_arity< bool(*)(int) >::value // == 1 Templates that encapsulate properties that are single types contain a type member called type. function_type< mpl::vector<bool,int> >::type // is bool(int) result_type< bool(&)(int) >::type // is int Templates that encapsulate properties that are type lists model an MPL-compatible type sequence. parameter_types< bool(int) > // models an MPL sequence Whats New ------------------------------------------------------------------- (from the last "official" version) - The interface, - the documentation, - the test-suite, - carefully picked and inline-documented source code examples, - code generator for preprocessed files is entirely written on top of Wave, - preprocessed files and the configuration (up to a certain extent) are compiler-agnostic, - preprocessed files do not have to be regenerated for custom configurations, unless for optimization (and changing the library code, of course), and - library is default calling convention-agnostic, OIW the default calling convention can be changed and detected without changing the library's configuration (unless for MSVC<8 due to the lack of a 'thiscall' keyword) Review Manager Comments ----------------------------------------------------- The convention is for this type of review to take at least 5 days. Of course, I'll extend it futher if there are going to be some late reviews, so let me know what you think your time frame is for submiting a review. I'll wait for you. The library was reviewed last year and has been modified to meet the concerns that were raised at that time. The previous review manager felt that another full-review was not necessary, but a shortended fast-track review was needed to address the following concerns: 1) improved docuentation is needed 2) lack of a motivating example 3) better examples in general 4) improved test-suite Please take another look at this library and express your views as to whether you think that the library is now ready for inclusion into boost. The usual critera applies. Thanks to the library author for his submission. Thanks in advance to the reviewers for submitting their reviews. Your opinions matter. Help improve this library even further by giving the author some additional feeback. Review Manager, Tom Brinkman