-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of er Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:41 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [review][assign] Formal review of Assign v2 ongoing
Based on Simonson's comments I suggested an even simpler syntax, essentially renaming csv_put<I>() to put<I>(), but for now I'll stick to what already exists.
I've been reading the docs and following this thread. csv_put also left me thinking "Huh?" and I still can't see what 'comma separated values' has anything to do with it. It doesn't seem to express the 'fixed number of things' concept at all? put seems clear enough - if you can overload it (and all csv variants) as you suggest with put<N>. Otherwise 'put_fixed' or 'fixed_put' might be clearer? Paul PS Seems to me that all this assign stuff seems very complicated for something really quite simple. It exposes the weakness in C++ language design - arrays are not 1st class citizens, and still are not, and having POD interferes with simple initialisation. But we stuck with that :-( And I support this assign.v2 library as a pragmatic solution, as assign.v1 was.