I have a piece of sample code in which I have a vector of shared pointers (boost::shared_ptr<>). Can anyone tell me why I am unable to iterate using the STL...
John Hunter
jdhunter@...
Nov 1, 1999 10:54 pm
870
Hi John, The problem is due to the fact that there is no conversion from "shared_ptr<Base>" to "Base*". Why is this conversion trying to take place? To see...
Matthew D. Langston
langston@...
Nov 2, 1999 1:06 am
871
Hello, I'm thinking of submitting the Binder Library (BL) to Boost. ... 1: a tuple abstraction: Example: tuple<int, char, string> foo() { return make_tuple(1,...
jaakko.jarvi@...
Nov 4, 1999 12:12 pm
872
From: jaakko.jarvi@... [mailto:jaakko.jarvi@...] ... [...] ... It sounds interesting. I plan on having a look at it. Paul....
Moore, Paul
Paul.Moore@...
Nov 4, 1999 3:45 pm
873
... Yes, please do! I especially like the way you've solved the binding problem. There's no problem with choosing names for 0-ary and 12-ary functions. -Dave...
Dave Abrahams
abrahams@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:13 am
874
We should change the Boost implementation of implicit_cast to a simple implementation that does not attempt to disable any warnings. The current implementation...
Darin Adler
darin@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:14 pm
875
... I'm convinced. -Dave...
Dave Abrahams
abrahams@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:33 pm
876
... copyright ... library. ... repository? Conceptually, it would be a nice addition. Hard to know the details; it isn't one of those libraries you can just...
Beman Dawes
beman@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:46 pm
877
... warning. [examples snipped] ... Indeed, I would go even further and make it consistent with the comment in the boost documentation, "Is this intended, or...
Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Nov 5, 1999 1:49 pm
878
... Hold on a minute, let's take a step back. What is the purpose of implicit_cast? "Is this intended, or is it a coding error" seems to indicate that it is...
Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Nov 5, 1999 2:39 pm
879
From: Gavin Collings [mailto:gcollings@...] ... No, he's suggesting that it can be used to force an implicit-type cast where one would not...
Moore, Paul
Paul.Moore@...
Nov 5, 1999 2:54 pm
880
... simple ... numeric ... implicit ... context ... I agree with the above, particularly now that we have a strong numeric_cast<>. But implicit_cast<> needs...
Beman Dawes
beman@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:11 pm
881
... No, he's suggesting that it can be used to force an implicit-type cast where one would not otherwise occur His example was (IIRC) template argument ...
Gavin Collings
gcollings@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:19 pm
882
Hi! I've written a C++ implementation of the Mersenne Twister PRNG, and I wish to submit it to the boost library. I believe the class conforms to all...
jeetsukumaran@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:22 pm
883
... It's worse than a slicing problem: it's a reference binding in a return statement to an automatic variable, ie a dandling reference. ... I would say that...
Valentin Bonnard
Bonnard.V@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:29 pm
884
... comment ... error". ... error, if ... implicit_cast? ... it is giving ... furthermore, he ... that case, ... it's a kind ... Yes, you are right about one...
Beman Dawes
beman@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:29 pm
885
... I agree that some programmers may want a cast that does a numeric conversion without any runtime checking. I recommend that we don't add anything to ...
Darin Adler
darin@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:33 pm
886
... It seems that that this is a minor problem compared with issues 1 and 2. Reasons: - implicit_cast is not intended to be called without a template ...
Darin Adler
darin@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:35 pm
887
... Once again: we only accept *freely usable code*, no GPL nor LPGL nor _any kind_ of copylefted code. -- Valentin Bonnard...
Valentin Bonnard
Bonnard.V@...
Nov 5, 1999 3:38 pm
888
... I would really like to have more RNG's for boost, so I will contact Jeet via private email to try to work out both technical and licensing issues. --Beman...
Beman Dawes
beman@...
Nov 5, 1999 4:07 pm
889
... [Darin's comments on implicit conversions in implicit_cast] ... [snip] ... I assume this must be for the first (two-typename template func), because the...
C. Green
postmast.root.admi.go...
Nov 5, 1999 4:18 pm
890
... You can disallow all uses of implicit_cast w/o an explicit template arg by stoping argument deduction: template <typename T> struct the_same { typedef T...
Valentin Bonnard
Bonnard.V@...
Nov 5, 1999 4:25 pm
891
... Oups ! yes ! ... Yes ... Yes ... If implicit_cast cannot be used on references types, it just isn't a general purpose implicit cast anymore and shouldn't ...
Valentin Bonnard
Bonnard.V@...
Nov 5, 1999 4:32 pm
892
Maybe also consider the following similar alternative for boost. http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~bebox/rng.html (although I think LGPL issues arise here as...
Paul Baxter
paje@...
Nov 5, 1999 4:51 pm
893
I got your e-mail, but your ISP bounced my reply -- both to your original address an your @boost.org address, so I'm posting my reply here. Apologies to...
jeetsukumaran@...
Nov 5, 1999 7:42 pm
894
... Certainly ... The artistic license doesn't cause as much problem as the BSD license, LGPL (or even worse, the GPL). The only problem I see is that it is...
Valentin Bonnard
Bonnard.V@...
Nov 5, 1999 7:44 pm
895
... [snip] ... Both of our identical solutions probably crossed paths somewhere on the net, as we seem to have sent them almost at the same moment :-) ... I...
C. Green
postmast.root.admi.go...
Nov 5, 1999 8:09 pm
896
... There are no problems with a discussion of Boost license policy in the Boost mailing list. ... This is correct. Any code derived from GPL code can only be ...
Valentin Bonnard
Bonnard.V@...
Nov 5, 1999 8:31 pm
897
... functions to ... be ... I like this idea. Using templates to maintain orthogonal decomposition, with different uniform prng passed to the transformation ...
jeetsukumaran@...
Nov 5, 1999 8:46 pm
898
Ok people. Based on suggestions made by Beman Dawes, as well as others on this list, as well as looking around at some of the other PRNG libraries available on...
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