Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:20041001140415.M13015@crystalclearsoftware.com...
| 6) Presidential filter example | While many of us see the humor in this, there was at least one objection to | introducing 'political comedy' into boost. Overall, the example should be | renamed and reformulated since in a few years no one will get the joke | anyway. Sorry to go politically correct here, but boost needs to be | above the fray.
I probably don't have the same political view as Jonathan, but I do think this example is pretty harmless and see no reason to change it. Some people even found it fun...that's a lot better than everybody finding it boring; there need to be a little fun once in a while to keep this programming stuff from being too dull.
perhaps the phrase should be re-thought so that's really harmless (that is, not offend anyone). I know it's hard, but I think it's worth it ;) Things like: "Give me a piece of pi" replace with: "Give me a piece of pie" etc. Best, John -- John Torjo -- john@torjo.com Contributing editor, C/C++ Users Journal -- "Win32 GUI Generics" -- generics & GUI do mix, after all -- http://www.torjo.com/win32gui/ -- v1.4 - save_dlg - true binding of your data to UI controls! + easily add validation rules (win32gui/examples/smart_dlg)