[boost] Filesystem portable path rationale and use-cases

2003-08-19 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
This discussion started off with various questions, including the following: 1) Why does it implement any restrictions, by default, on what kind of files it allows? 2) I don't understand why boost::filesystem wants to restrict me to a set of filenames that are portable But the discussion quickly

RE: [boost] boost::format problems

2003-02-03 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
problems Le jeu 16/01/2003 à 15:13, Yitzhak Sapir a écrit : I tried to use boost::format in a simple manner. The line in question is: std::cout boost::format(%0d) % some_function(); Unfortunately, in order for this to compile I have to: 1) #include locale 2) add a line

RE: [boost] Comments on date/time library

2003-01-22 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
-Original Message- From: Jeff Garland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] However, to implement format General Date (format letter c), I need to know if the given input contains a date, a time, or a datetime. Since the functions pretty much perform the same thing, I have a core that

[boost] date_time oversight?

2003-01-19 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
date_names_put is defined in date_names_put.hpp as templateclass Config, class charT = char, class OutputIterator = std::ostreambuf_iteratorcharT class date_names_put : public std::locale::facet file greg_facet.hpp defines: typedef

RE: [boost] Re: Hello MPL world!

2003-01-07 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
-Original Message- From: David B. Held [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [boost] Re: Hello MPL world! While this is a cute idea, my first impression would be: Uh...is this really something I could use in my own code?

Re: [boost] Hello MPL world!

2003-01-06 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
I think storing the text Hello world! in a vector typedef vector13_cchar, 'H','e','l','l','o',' ', 'w','o','r','l','d','!','\n' hello_world; And then using functors to print it such as: template class Prev, class T struct print { static void eval() { Prev::eval();

Re: [boost] Serialization Review Results

2002-12-12 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, David Abrahams wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Harris) writes: 1. Agreement on terms. In particular, I strongly suggest beginning with the definitions of serialization and persistence outlined by Augustus Saunders in

Re: [boost] Win32/Borland failures

2002-12-11 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Beman Dawes wrote: The Win32 regression tests are working again, but there are a lot of new Borland failures. See http://boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs/cs-win32-diff.html It looks like some change to a commonly used library is causing an assertion to fail in the

Re: [boost] Re:New mailing list: boost-serialize

2002-12-10 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, David Abrahams wrote: Would this other list be searchable with the WWW interface? I guess not: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=17460 In the top left hand side of this link, there is a section saying Search with a drop down box saying This Mailing

Re: [boost] [Config] Testing instructions for compiler vendors

2002-12-10 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, David Abrahams wrote: And, I suggest BOOST_WORKAROUND(__BORLANDC__, |0x569) Since I began wondering whether it was a typo that you used | instead of , since the | obviously always evaluates true, leading me to browse this thread, I think something more descriptive

Re: [boost] [Config] Testing instructions for compiler vendors

2002-12-10 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, David Abrahams wrote: That's awfully verbose, though. And it would need a BOOST_ prefix, making it more verbose still. Given that the meaning of BOOST_WORKAROUND is already non-transparent, you need to read the documentation to understand it. I think it'd be best to

[boost] Re: Serialization Library Review

2002-11-18 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
It is not clear to me, but it seems like the deadline was extended. Dave Abrahams asked Thomas, and he wrote back a simple message. It would have been nicer if there was a general announcement to that end, in my opinion. In any case, I have MSVC 6.5, and based on the discussions it seems that

[boost] bind-like functors

2002-11-12 Thread Yitzhak Sapir
I would like to do a loop on all elements of a vector, and for each one call some function. I'd like to attempt this function each time, even if exceptions are thrown, and since I don't care about those exceptions I'd like to wrap this in try{} catch(...) {} which I will refer to as an exception