Re: [boost] [review][assign] Formal review of Assign v2 ongoing

On 20/06/11 18:36, Simonson, Lucanus J wrote: <snip>

I very much like initializer list syntax, but the syntax for this library doesn't give me any warm feelings. Perhaps we need motivating examples and a little bit of rationale for *why* such a library should exist. Does it make doing something much easier in a templated context or is it just a quest to type less when using standard containers in code that looks like the examples? I ordinarily only initialize containers to literals when writing unit tests.

I think unit tests are indeed an important use case for such a library. That's where I use the existing Boost.Assign. John Bytheway