Re: [sigc] Re: [Boost-users] Signals & Slots

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 15:32 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 20:32 -0500, Carl Nygard wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 14:09, Doug Gregor wrote:
> > > On Nov 18, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not in a position to do this at the moment, although possibly in 
> > > the future. It would be *wonderful* if someone went off and studied 
> > > both libraries in-depth to make this comparison, especially if that 
> > > person was not intimately familiar with either library beforehand.
> > > 
> > 
> > Available: http://www.3sinc.com/opensource/boost.bind-vs-sigc2.html
> 
> Well done.
> 
> But it needs several corrections:
> 
> 0. Please call libsigc++ "libsigc++" rather "than "SigC++".
> 
> 1. Shulze -> Schulze.
> 
> 2. libsigc++2 uses sigc::signal<>, not sigc::signal[1/2/3/4/5]<>.
> 
> 3. Signals with return values, with multiple handlers, seems like a more
> advanced issue that should be mentioned at the end.
> 
> 4. I have no idea what this does in your example:
> "sig.slots().push_front()".
> You can just use connect() again for a second slot. And you certainly
> shouldn't need to use it again for every slot after already using
> connect().
> 
> 5. I can't find a mention of member method handlers. I would prefer that
> the simple stuff that I mentioned was dealt with first.

6. You can do sig(1) with libsigc++ as well as sig.emit(1), so it's not
a difference.

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