At Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:43:03 -1000, Christian Henning wrote:
Hi there,
Gil is concept based.
That doesn't necessarily make it generic :-0
Do you mean that tools like concepts in the wrong hands can cause confusion or just plain gibberish? If so, I'm pretty sure the people at adobe who handcrafted gil knew what they were doing. Also gil survived the boost review and is now part of boost for a couple of years, or so.
I'm not trying to imply anything, one way or another, about the people who built GIL. I am only saying that you can invent concepts all day long but you'll end up with a non-generic library if you haven't accounted for the need to non-intrusively adapt types to model them.
I don't really wanna blow up this issue.
Then I suggest cooling your jets a wee bit :-)
For now view concepts from gil and multi_array are not compatible I would say. Hopefully in the future we can agree on 2D and 3D container and container view concepts that should be implemented by all libs who need such functionality. In the same we way boost needs a common point2D structure. ;-)
I'm not sure why it should be true that we need a common point2D. But then, maybe I'm missing something. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com