Hi Youssef,
From: Youssef Oujamaa
Hello boost developers,
My mentor and I are working on a safe variable template class this summer in the spirit of the GSOC even though we where not selected to get any funds for it. We would like to know what our fellow boost/c++ developers would like to see in a safe variable template class and what not, you can see what we are aiming for in the document bellow.
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/SOC/2008/safe_ variable/boost_gsoc_2008.pdf
We look forward to your input.
It looks like your library is going to duplicate much of the functionality of the library I'm going to submit for a formal review in a short time: Boost Constrained Value library (see docs here: http://rk.go.pl/r/constrained_value). In brief, the library is about creating wrappers for objects that allow only to assign values valid according to a predicate. The library doesn't contain SafeInt functionality, however, because I feel that the issues of constraining the set of possible values and avoiding arithmetic oferflows are separate and should be addressed by distinct libraries. I think you may find some other useful information searching this group's archives, there were several discussions on similar topics in the past. Best regards, Robert