Changes between Version 149 and Version 150 of LibrariesUnderConstruction

Timestamp:

May 24, 2011, 4:38:12 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

viboes

Comment:

Added Generic & TypeErasure

LibrariesUnderConstruction

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  * '''State:''' On going
  * '''Last upload:''' 2010 October 10
- * '''Links:''' [http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/auto_function Boost Sandbox]
- * '''Categories:'''  [#Utilities Utilities]
- * '''Description:''' "auto function" macro that uses trailing return type 
-syntax with decltype with 1-liner functions that automatically repeats the 
-same expression in both the return type and the return statement. 
+ * '''Links:''' [http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/auto_function Boost Sandbox] [http://www.rivorus.com/auto_function Documentation]
+ * '''Categories:'''  [#Utilities Utilities]  [#GenericProgramming Generic Programming] 
+ * '''Description:''' Boost.Auto_Function is a library focused on making it simple for programmers to express functions and function declarations that have an automatically deduced return type and to provide a way to place arbitrary compile-time requirements on a function's signature. 
 
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  * '''Categories:''' [#Containers Containers] [#InputOutput Input/Output] 
  * '''Description:''' Boost.Explore is a library that provides for the output of data from containers or ranges. 
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+== Boost.Generic ==
+ * '''Author(s):''' Matt Callabrese 
+ * '''Version:''' 
+ * '''State:''' 
+ * '''Last upload:'''2008 Mars 22
+ * '''Links:''' [http://github.com/boostcon/2011_presentations/raw/master/thu/Boost.Generic.pdfPresentation]
+ * '''Categories:''' [#GenericProgramming Generic Programming] 
+ * '''Description:''' Boost.Generic (not a part of boost) is a C++0x library intended to replace BCCL as a way of specifying concepts and concept maps as close as possible to the withdraw C++0x Concepts.
 
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  * '''Description:''' TR2 Proposal text: [http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2101.html Tree Structures and Related Concepts for the C++ Standard Library (TR2)]
 
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+== Boost.TypeErasure ==
+ * '''Author(s):''' Steven Watanabe 
+ * '''Version:''' 
+ * '''State:''' 
+ * '''Last upload:'''2011 Mai 22
+ * '''Links:''' [http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=type_erasure.zip&directory=& Boost Vault]
+ * '''Categories:''' [#GenericProgramming Generic Programming] 
+ * '''Description:''' C++ provides runtime polymorphism through virtual functions. They are a very useful feature, but they do have some limitations.
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+    * They are intrusive. In generic programming, we can design an interface which allows third-party types to be adapted to it.
+    * They require dynamic memory management. Of course, most of the problems can be avoided by using an appropriate smart pointer type. Even so, it still acts like a pointer rather than a value.
+    * Virtual functions' ability to apply multiple independent concepts to a single object is limited.
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+The Boost.TypeErasure library solves these problems allowing us to mirror static generic programming at runtime.
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