[boost] Re: How Do We Install the Boost FileSystem?

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent Finn
Isadora Kenterly wrote: I posted this question to one of the C++ groups and they treated me as if I were an entity from another planet! The group was comp.lang.c++. The topic there is standard C++ so libraries like boost are off topic If they are in a good mood they'll help but there is no guarante

[boost] Re: an XML API in boost

2003-06-03 Thread Vincent Finn
What I did was to provide a *thin* wrapper around the internal C strucs used by libxml2, so every dom manipulation call can be delegated down to libxml2. For example xpath lookup: I call libxml2's xpath API, returning me a C structure (possibly) holding a node set, i.e. a list of C nodes. I just ne

[boost] Re: class proposal

2003-04-23 Thread Vincent Finn
Justin M. Lewis wrote: Not entirely, passing a pointer doesn't tell you that the parameter will change, it just tells you that it might, it still leaves you in the position of having to track down the function and check it. But outside of that, if you're like me, at this point you prefer reference

[boost] Re: Spirit and slow compile (from gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel)

2003-01-15 Thread Vincent Finn
Joel de Guzman wrote: - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I was talking to you on the boost newsgroup about spirit being slow to compile Here is a standalone section of code, it'll compile but you can't do anything with it The compile takes about 15 mins on my machine (

Re: [boost] Re: spirit and compile speed

2003-01-10 Thread Vincent Finn
Joel de Guzman wrote: "Vincent Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I assume this is the right place to post questions on Spirit now that it is part of boost! If not here, where? There's a Spirit speci

[boost] spirit and compile speed

2003-01-09 Thread Vincent Finn
Hi, I assume this is the right place to post questions on Spirit now that it is part of boost! If not here, where? My question is about compile speed. Is there any way to speed it up or at least seperate it from the project? I have added 2 parsers to my code base and the compile time (VC6) has

[boost] Optional suggestion

2002-12-18 Thread Vincent Finn
Hi, A thought occurred to me about optional<> This is again about having the constructor non-explicit (I would really like to have this :-) could you use partial specialization to do this ? The code below has the desired behaviour. usage gives the programmer the ability to choose whether the co

[boost] Re: smart_ptr and operator bool

2002-12-17 Thread Vincent Finn
Peter Dimov wrote: From: "Vincent Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, A quick question does the latest version of smart_ptr have a bool cast ? Quick answer: yes, it does. http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/shared_ptr.htm#conversions I read that but the phrase 'unspecified

[boost] smart_ptr and operator bool

2002-12-17 Thread Vincent Finn
Hi, A quick question does the latest version of smart_ptr have a bool cast ? The version I use, 1.22, has an options (define BOOST_SMART_PTR_CONVERSION) but I know this was taken out in later versions There was talk of a safe 'operator bool()' but I don't know if anything came of it! Vin _

[boost] Re: Formal review: Optional library

2002-12-11 Thread Vincent Finn
Douglas Gregor wrote: The formal review of Fernando Cacciola's Optional library begins today and runs until the end of Wednesday, December 18. I would still like a way of having the constructor being implicit so you could use optional for function arguments instead of the pointer syntax but th

[boost] Re: Formal Review Request: class optional<>

2002-11-25 Thread Vincent Finn
Fernando Cacciola wrote: - Original Message - From: "Vincent Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And now the question can this be used with VC6 ? Yes :-)) I've uploaded the new version which compiles and runs properly with VC6.0 Got it, thanks :-) But back to the o

[boost] Re: Formal Review Request: class optional<>

2002-11-22 Thread Vincent Finn
Hi, I have one comment and one question. So first the comment I was recently thinking about a similar thing for a slightly different purpose. You seem to concentrate on option return values, what about optional arguments. e.g. void fn(int iImportant, optional iNotImportant = optional()); The

[boost] Re: Possible boost addition: sub string and const s tring.

2002-11-21 Thread Vincent Finn
Alexei Novakov wrote: "Vincent Finn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Forwarded to main Boost list - that's the more appropriate venue for discussions of possible additions. -- Jim Hyslop boost-users modera

[boost] Re: lexical_cast and bool

2002-11-20 Thread Vincent Finn
Neal D. Becker wrote: "Roland" == Roland Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roland> Dear all, Roland> just a minor issue for the upcoming(?) lexical_cast in 1.30.0: Roland> lexical_cast( "true" ) returns false, Roland> since std::ios::boolalpha is not set by default. Rol

[boost] Re: Possible boost addition: sub string and const s tring.

2002-11-20 Thread Vincent Finn
Forwarded to main Boost list - that's the more appropriate venue for discussions of possible additions. -- Jim Hyslop boost-users moderator. > -Original Message- > From: alexei_novakov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: