Subject: Re: [boost] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-03-03 01:08:07
On 3/03/2016 09:56, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> On 02/27/2016 05:16 PM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>
>> Documentation:http://pfultz2.github.io/Fit/doc/html/
>
> In More Examples / Projections there is this example:
>
> std::sort(std::begin(people), std::end(people),
> by(&Person::year_of_birth, _ < _));
>
> That strikes me as a very terse syntax, where the reader could easily
> miss the fact that two values are being compared. Have you considered
> the use of placeholders like _1 and _2 instead?
Being able to use arguments out of order or repeatedly is often useful
as well.