Peter Soetens wrote:

Quoting Jeff Garland <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com>:

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The list of projects is now online at:

http://code.google.com/soc/boost/about.html

Not really much detail there, but hopefully more coming soon...

The details were actually online. Each title was clickable and the proposal of each participant appeared. Google removed the links 6 hours ago or so. My favourite is the 'Modular C++' project, inspired on <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1964.pdf>

That confuses me. The paper seems to be talking about modifying the C++ language. The title of the project, however, is "Modular C++ preprocessor", which is * talking about a C++ preprocessor, not a C++ parser. * seems to imply that it's the preprocessor that is modular, not the thing it (pre)processes. (And, how does it related to boost.wave ?) So what's the deal ? Thanks, Stefan

Peter Soetens wrote:

Quoting Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca>:

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My favourite is the 'Modular C++' project, inspired on <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1964.pdf> That confuses me. The paper seems to be talking about modifying the C++ language. The title of the project, however, is "Modular C++

Peter Soetens wrote: preprocessor", which is

* talking about a C++ preprocessor, not a C++ parser. * seems to imply that it's the preprocessor that is modular, not the thing it (pre)processes. (And, how does it related to boost.wave ?)

So what's the deal ?

You should read it as (Modular C++) preprocessor. C++ module files must be 'preprocessed' such that they are converted to C++ header files and C++ implementation files, which are fed to your compiler. Also, a 'module header' file is generated which can be used by other modules to learn about the public contents of a module. It relates to boost.spirit (not boost.wave) which is a parser framework, which will be used to read the module files.

I see ! Thanks for the clarification, Stefan

congratulations to all involved. All projects look really interesting ! Was it Google that selected the winning projects out of a broader list or was it Boost that proposed the projects ? On 5/26/06, AlisdairM <alisdair.meredith@uk.renaultf1.com> wrote:

Peter Soetens wrote:

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The details were actually online. Each title was clickable and the proposal of each participant appeared. Google removed the links 6 hours ago or so. My favourite is the 'Modular C++' project, inspired on <http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1964.pdf>

There are a few of us in the UK who have been following this paper with a great deal of interest, and thinking about implementing a pre-processor based solution ourself, possibly on top of Boost Build. If this Soc project is the same thing how can we register interest in following progress?

-- AlisdairM

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AlisdairM wrote:

There are a few of us in the UK who have been following this paper with a great deal of interest, and thinking about implementing a pre-processor based solution ourself, possibly on top of Boost Build. If this Soc project is the same thing how can we register interest in following progress?

Well you've just done it :-) But if you contact Joel and the student direct that would be the best way, I'm sure they'd welcome additional support: especially from people familar with the std proposal. John.

"Gennadiy Rozental" <gennadiy.rozental@thomson.com> writes:

"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:44770928.2040505@crystalclearsoftware.com...

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The list of projects is now online at:

http://code.google.com/soc/boost/about.html

Don't know about you, but in my browser page look completely scrambled.

a. What browser? b. Report it to Google; it's their web app (http://groups.google.com/group/Summer-Discuss-2006) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com