[Quantlib-dev] Some noobie questions

[Takashi Y. <tak...@ho...>]

Hi All,

I recently came accross Quantlib and have a few questions (I couldnt find 
the answers in the "documentation):

1). Is there a "roll your own" cookbook that shows how to derive other 
instruments (from an existing base instrument class say?)

2). Equity derivatives, Futures and Commodities appear to be missing from 
the library - was this an oversight?
(i)- if yes, when are these instruments likely to be included ?
(ii). No plan is in place for these instruments, could someone then kindly 
suggest to me how I may go about using the existing library to build these 
instruments - i.e attempt to add these instruments to the library (similar 
to question 1).

3).  Concrete classes for calendars (one for each country) seems a bit 
unusual, why was this approach taking rather than having a generic calendar 
class with properties/methods that would determine which country the 
calendar was representing?

4). There are existing, complete libraries for Date/Time (e.g. wxWidget), 
why did you not build on these existing classes (i.e. why did  you decide to 
start from scratch)?


All i all, a very interesting project, to which I would like to contribute 
some code, once I have understood how everything "hangs" together - and the 
philosophy behind it ...

Look forward to your response.

Takashi

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