I've looked at both the Named Parameter Idiom and the Boost::Parameter library. What advantages does each one have over the other? Is there a good reason to always choose one over the other, or might each of them be better than the other in some situations (and if so, what situations)? ...
I'm using the Boost Parameter tutorial to create a named-parameter constructor for a playing card generator. The tutorial says to put the ArgumentPack into a base class, but I want to modify variables in the card generator class. I've thought about doing this: class CGconstructor_base { public: template<class ArgumentPack> C...
I suppose most of the persons on this site will agree that implementation can be outsourced in two ways: private inheritance composition Inheritance is most often abused. Notably, public inheritance is often used when another form or inheritance could have been better and in general one should use composition rather than private inhe...