5:00 PM Saturday Room: 8403
In this session, I will take a request from the boost mailing list:
| Why doesn’t boost have hex/unhex functions, I think they would be useful.
And walk through the design and implementation of these algorithms for the Boost.Algorithm library. Although the functions are simple, there are a surprising number of interesting design decisions that were made along the way – and I will explore them in this talk.
Issues covered:
1) Generic programming design
2) Dealing with iterators (including the problems with output iterators)
3) Template metaprogramming (including enable_if)
4) Boost.Exception
5) Fit and polish of code.