John Krajewski wrote:
I'm new to generic programming and finding the various concepts used in Boost quite confusing (named parameters, property maps, etc). Is there general documentation for the programming methods used in Boost? Perhaps a good book to buy?
Documentation is a HUGE challenge .... (pgo ... sorry) Our small city has an excellent public library that encourages patron requests. My experience is that the reference librarians aren't particularly computer literate (outside of their field of getting answers). They may very well welcome patron requests for very specialized technical books (but takes a while). The library tends to only approve recent publications ... (very reasonable) .... so I use "ILL - interlibrary loan" for older classics like Friedl's 1997 "Mastering Regular Expressions" ... if the shipping expenses won't be exorbinant. Our library now has these books because of my patron requests (and which I have in front of me): Karlsson, "Beyond the C++ Standard Library" Watts, "Beginning Regular Expressions" (but the libertarian in me is defensive about my pragmatic frugality <g>)