[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

[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

[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

[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 specific mailing list that

[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] OptionalT 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

[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, optionalint iNotImportant =

[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: