Re: learning Boost
On Sep 27, 2:35 pm, Gennaro Prota <gennaro/pr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
BubbaT wrote:
What is the best way to pick up Boost?
By using good sense. Try filtering useful stuff from "mental
experiments", and never assume anything (be it interface or
implementation) to be high-quality just because it is in
Boost.
To a certain degree, you can never assume quality, but Boost
seems to be significantly better than most in this regard; I'd
actually trust something from Boost more than I would extensions
and additional libraries from some compilers.
What you probably can't assume is usefulness. Some parts of
Boost are very useful: you really should be using boost::regex
and boost::array if at all possible. Others less: I certainly
wouldn't spend a lot of time learning boost::crc unless I really
had to calculate CRC's. (In that particular case, I think my
class has a better designed interface. But that's not really
the point---you shouldn't waste time learning it, either, unless
you need CRC's for something. Most code doesn't.)
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