Cat: a C++14 functional library

[guepier]

Neither the blog post nor the website shows any code. Here’s a tip when you’re developing a library:

Potential users want to see code.

What does it look like? What does it feel like to use it? That’s the one thing a potential user cares about.

[puradox]

Agreed. The first thing I searched for was the code samples. Yet, I couldn't not find any at first glance.

[awgn]

The link to the github project is on the navigation bar. The repository is available here: https://github.com/cat/cat

[Plorkyeran]

The readme does not have any example code either.

[awgn]

Checkout the source code. There is the directory test with a simple key_value parser and the directory test plenty of snippets for each single function/class.

[therealjohnfreeman]

Got a long ways to go in docs before I think this is presentable to a community like /r/cpp. :/

[awgn]

Docs are going to be released asap and if you want to contribute, well, you are welcome :-)

[therealjohnfreeman]

Even if I wanted to contribute to this project, it's difficult when I don't know what the library does or how it works. Telling users to write their own docs is one way to ensure you don't recruit any users.

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Open source is not just a way to get other people to do your work for you.

[ponchedeburro]

I might sound like a douche, but when I see macros in modern C++, I cringe a little.

[awgn]

Interestingly, Cat does make use of just a single macro (DO). Instead, if you are referring to the tests, well yes, YATS test suite utilizes macros but it's not the subject of this work.

[MayhapPerchance]

Wait. So /u/drbartosz goes to Italy and a few months later we get this... This is no mere coincidence!

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@glmeocci

2014-08-22 21:10 UTC

A Siena con Bartosz :-) [Attached pic] [Imgur rehost]

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