Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Moving ASL to github

[Sean P. <sea...@ma...>]

Feel free to fork - splitting into modules is going to take some time.

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First up is any_regular.hpp
   Issues with the current implementation to be addressed:
       1) reliance on promote<> - promote<> seemed like a good idea but it
has bit me a number of times, currently longs promote to double, which is
just wrong. It also means that the interface needs to be value based in
many locations where it could have been reference based. Will add a build
flag to tag places where promote would have kicked in to help with
migration.
       2) needs to be updated to C++11 move, and remove dependency on move
library.
       3) assignment - currently requires assignment, this is an issue
because I'd like to make function objects and lambda's first class (or as
close as possible) but equality is very useful. I have been playing with
ways to write a has_equal_to<> that seems to work good enough.
       4) implementation and interface complicated by ABI stability. ABI
stability to be removed (but I will be moving to using inlined namespaces).
       5) implementation complicated by use of poly<> - plan to remove that.
       6) rename to adobe::any
       7) make constructor implicit
       8) rename explicit_cast and runtime_cast to static_cast_ and
dynamic_cast_ to make them easier to remember.

Open issues:
       1) Match boost::any api including broken any_cast interface?
(differs from boost::any by support small object optimization, optional
equal_to, and unsafe static cast). boost::any has been proposed to the
standard - and the broken any_cast has already been discussed to be fixed.
       2) Add support for other operators - such as index by std::size_t or
const char* (useful for dictionaries and arrays), arithmetic operators for
numeric types?

Suggestions? Comments?
Sean


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Ivan Le Lann <iva...@fr...> wrote:

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> *De: *"Sean Parent" <sea...@ma...>
> *À: *ado...@li..., "Mat Marcus" <
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> *Envoyé: *Mercredi 7 Novembre 2012 01:37:03
> *Objet: *Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Moving ASL to github
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> I setup a section on our wiki to document the transition to github. That
> can be found here:
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> http://stlab.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Github_migration
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> Not a lot there at the moment - but should be enough to get people started.
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> Thank you for doing this.
> I will definitely base my (utterly slow) work on ASL on this repository.
> As I do not understand anything to Perforce, merging with .43 release has
> been somewhat painful.
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>> As modules are split out and cleaned up I plan to propose them for
>> inclusion in boost as appropriate.
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> Does that mean that forking is not recommended at the moment and until
> modules are split ?
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> Regards,
> Ivan
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