[Clam-devel] Re: [Acustica-Bm] boost & clam

[Xavier]

As much as I love boost I am not sure we want to get CLAM into yet more 
dependencies.

There are many more benefits to boost than just a prettier syntax and 
CLAM could benefit from them
in several places. But this would make things even harder in terms of 
(1) dependencies and (2) understandability of
compilation error (I use boost daily and I have to scratch my head many 
times when I get a compilation error:-)

That said... it's a good discussion: let's hear other opinions.

X


David García Garzón wrote:
> Let's move this discussion to the clam-devel list. Hope you are already 
> subscribed, Dirk.
>
> On Monday 11 May 2009 15:17:39 dirk at code-shop.com wrote:
>   
>> Small question,
>>
>> I see a lot of:
>>
>> for (std::list<ProcessingAndGeometry>::const_iterator
>> it=sourcesAndGeometries.begin(); it!=sourcesAndGeometries.end();it++)
>> {
>>
>> which is quite verbose (and it ought to ++i when incrementing iterators)
>>
>> boost has a macro BOOST_FOREACH to hide this:
>>
>>     std::string hello( "Hello, world!" );
>>
>>     BOOST_FOREACH( char ch, hello )
>>     {
>>         std::cout << ch;
>>     }
>>
>> Would it be possible to add bits and pieces of boost to clam? (Taking
>> care not to introduce a lot of dependancies off course)
>>
>> Same goes for the smart pointer and more small utilities ...
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>     
>
>
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