From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-20 20:46:11
"Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> writes:
> There's another point that has me a little bit stumped. Most of the boost
> libraries are code that one invokes with a documented signature. The list
> of invocations, syntax and semantics is what I think Vladimir is referring
> to here with "reference documentation". However, the serialization library
> is more "upside down" in that using it consists almost entirely of filling
> in stubs called by the serialization algorithm. So its not clear to me how
> the "reference documentation" would look compared to the current documents.
That's usually done by describing concept requirements of the
parameters to the serialization algorithm. See
http://www.boost.org/libs/iterator/doc/iterator_facade.html#iterator-facade-requirements
for an example.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com