"John Calcote" <jcalcote@novell.com> writes:
I think it would be a good idea to provide some technical notes for various boost class implementations. For example, I have recently been studying smart pointers - I've ready Andrei Alexandrescu's discussion of the topic in his book, 'Modern C++ Design'. It's good, and fairly comprehensive, but doesn't cover all of the nuances of some of the boost smart pointer implementations.
Nor should it; he's discussing a completely different design.
For those of us interested in learning more about the language, and more about boost classes and the rationale behind the implementation - and for those of us who simply don't have the technical background to "just know" the answer at a glance, as I'm sure some of you contributors do - why not provide a simple rationale for adding a particular member function to a particular class?
Rationales are central to Boost documentation: http://www.boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm#Rationale_rationale That said, I don't think any of us is going to try to provide rationale on a member-by-member basis. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com