Cromwell Enage wrote:
--- David Abrahams wrote:
If you want to make a new category, I'd go for "Patterns and Idioms". Boost.Parameter can be described as a mechanism that encapsulates the named-parameter idiom
<http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/ctors.html#faq-10.18>
as well as the unnamed-parameter idiom (wherever that's described). The Singleton library, if and when it's accepted, can also fit in this category.
Maybe. It seems awfully general to me. Why group patterns and idioms together?
IMHO, as far as a programmer is concerned, they do the same thing: encapsulate most of the tedious steps required to reuse a programming technique. If that sounds like "Generic Programming", then perhaps that's where Boost.Parameter belongs.
In another email:
The category I'm thinking of is not exactly "functional programming" so much as "building and using function interfaces."
Then put it under "UI building" also ;)
I think "parameters" lib falls under a new category: "Programming Interfaces". The planned boost.interface library also falls under this category, as do boost::function (perhaps). Regards, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net