[pooma-dev] Re: Status

[Scott Haney]

On Monday, July 9, 2001, at 09:57 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> FYI, the STL in most places just uses one function, like this:
>
>  template <typename T>
>  void newRelation(T t) { ... t() ... }
>
> which works with functors and function pointers automatically, and
> with the pointer-to-member case via an adaptor; I think there
> is something like `member_function' that returns a new functor so that
> you can say:
>
> newRelation (member_function(obj, &ComputeVelocity::doit), v, p, m)
>
> It's not clear to me that we should try to imitate the STL in any way
> in POOMA -- but its conventions are now used by lots of people, so it
> might be good to gradually move the interfaces in that direction.  It's
> also worth noting that compilers are working hard on optimizing those
> constructs, so if POOMA looks like the STL, that might have positive
> side-effects as well.

Hi Mark,

This is a good suggestion. The Blanca folks would rather have a single 
function to support their use of round-trip engineering tools. I'm 
modifying my code to do this.

Scott