Re: std::function ?

[John Taber <jtaber johntaber net>]

Thks for keeping us abreast.  Gtkmm is all about C++ and to me, the C++ 
committee is totally missing the big picture, which limits gtkmm.  Whether 
it's the language, or the toolkit, or the ide, I don't see any progress here 
that's going to speed up our production 1.1x much less 3x with less bugs 
while maintaining decent performance, but that's what we really need and have 
to be headed towards.  The C++ committee has not advanced any significant 
ease of use improvements in the last 8 years or so since STL was adopted, 
meanwhile java, c#, python, ruby, XUL, Objective C are all moving forward.

In the link, Sutter asks what if there were different flavors of string -  duh 
guess what, every toolkit now has it's own string class now because the C++ 
group hasn't modernized to accomodate UTF-8.  so now we have string, 
std::string, ustring(Gtkmm), Qstring(Qt), FxString(Fox).....   At least 
Walter Bright's D is much more progressive, too bad it doesn't seem to be 
totally backward compatible.

Maybe we should be working towards "gtkdd"  - it would be moving forward, not 
maintaining status quo.  
John

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 07:47 am, Foster, Gareth wrote:
> I came across this today [ http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/FastDelegate.asp
> ], I know there were discussions about GTKmm, libsigc++ and boost, does the
> following now mean that the discussion will need to gather momentum (if it
> hasn't already)?
>
>
> There are many implementations of this scheme, including several here at
> CodeProject. They vary in their complexity, their syntax (especially, how
> similar their syntax is to C#), and in their generality. The definitive
> implementation is boost::function. Recently, it was adopted into the next
> version of the C++ standard [Sutter1]. Expect its use to become widespread.
>
> [Sutter1] http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8464/cujcexp0308sutter/
>
> Gaz
>
>
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