Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:
I'd like to add that none of the submitted reviews report any actual usage of the lib, except maybe running the tests. It would be great if we can get some feedback about the behavior of the library in some real world scenario, as this kind of info is crucial to determining whether the material has real applicability beyond the toy examples provided.
I have a situation where I'd like to experiment with this library, but I do not have time to start it yet. Perhaps my mentioning it is half-way valuable, though, so here goes :) When I saw the announcement, I immediately thought about using the library to store and access Unicode text. Specifically, I am imagining that it might allow me to create a string type that acts as a randomly accessible sequence of glyphs. Each glyph would be a flyweight<>. Most glyphs can of course be represented directly by a 32 bit integer, as they're only composed of a single code-point. However, uncommon glyphs that would need more than one code-point (because of combining marks) may benefit from a flyweight approach. Is this a good use case? Would std::basic_string<flyweight<glyph> > "work" (with appropriate character traits)? Could I also get boost's regular expressions to operate on these strings? Kind regards, Edd