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<h2>Libraries Listed <a name="Alphabetically">Alphabetically</a></h2>
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<li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney. </li>
<li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
<li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
with constant or generated data has never been
easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
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<li><a href="bind/bind.html">bind</a> and <a href="bind/mem_fn.html"> mem_fn</a> - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter
Dimov.</li>
<li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
<li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
Maurer.</li>
<li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
- Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
Hinnant, et al.</li>
<li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
- Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
intended for library users.</li>
<li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
Kevlin Henney.</li>
<li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
Walker.</li>
<li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
<li><a href="dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html">dynamic_bitset</a> - A runtime sized version of <tt>std::bitset</tt> from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.</li>
<li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> - Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
<li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
Beman Dawes.</li>
<li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
<li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
<li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
<li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
types, from Daniel James.</li>
<li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
<li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
dealing with integral types.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
Melquiond, Herv´ Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
<li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
<li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
<li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
<li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
Gary Powell.</li>
<li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
<li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/math_special_functions.html">math/special_functions</a> -
Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
from Hubert Holin.</li>
<li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
from Hervé Brönnimann.</li>
<li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
<li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
<li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López
Muñoz.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
and Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><span class="library"><a href=
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Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
and Daniel Wallin.</li>
<li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
- Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease
OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
<li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
Steve Cleary.</li>
<li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
and Paul Mensonides.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
<li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
- Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
classes and functions into <a
href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
Abrahams.</li>
<li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
<li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
for generic algorithms that builds on top
of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
<li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
<li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
passing references to generic functions, from Jaako Järvi,
Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
<li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
library, from John Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a>
- Serialization for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
<li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &
slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
<li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
<li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
- Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework
represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
Guzman and team.</li>
<li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
<li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
full unit testing, and for program
execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
<li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
<li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
Dawes.</li>
<li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
<li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
<li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
<li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
<li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>
<b>prior()</b>
function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others.</li>
<li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
<li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union
container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
<li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant
implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut Kaiser </li>
<li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2>Libraries Listed by <a name="Category">Category</a></h2>
<h3><a name="String">String</a> and text processing</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="conversion/lexical_cast.htm">conversion/lexical_cast</a> - <tt>lexical_cast</tt>
class template, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
<li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
<li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
<li><a href="regex/index.html">regex</a> - Regular expression
library, from John Maddock</li>
<li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework
represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
Guzman and team.</li>
<li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
<li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela</li>
<li><a href="wave/index.html">wave</a> - Standards conformant implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface, from Hartmut Kaiser.</li>
<li><a href="xpressive/index.html">xpressive</a> - Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates,
and that can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars, from Eric Niebler.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Containers">Containers</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="array/index.html">array</a> - STL compliant
container wrapper for arrays of constant size, from
Nicolai Josuttis.</li>
<li><a href="dynamic_bitset/dynamic_bitset.html">dynamic_bitset</a> - A runtime sized version of <tt>std::bitset</tt> from Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison.</li>
<li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
<li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
<li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López
Muñoz.</li>
<li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
- Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
<li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
- Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Iterators">Iterators</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
<li><a href="iterator/doc/index.html">iterators</a> - Iterator
construction framework, adaptors, concepts, and more, from Dave
Abrahams, Jeremy Siek, and Thomas Witt.</li>
<li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
and Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="tokenizer/index.html">tokenizer</a> - Break of a string or other
character sequence into a series of tokens, from John Bandela.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Algorithms">Algorithms</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="foreach/index.html">foreach</a> - BOOST_FOREACH macro for easily
iterating over the elements of a sequence, from Eric Niebler.</li>
<li><a href="graph/doc/table_of_contents.html">graph</a> -
Generic graph components and algorithms, from Jeremy Siek
and a University of Notre Dame team.</li>
<li><a href="algorithm/minmax/index.html">minmax</a> - standard library
extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations,
from Hervé Brönnimann.</li>
<li><a href="algorithm/string/index.html">string_algo</a> -
String algorithms library, from Pavol Droba</li>
<li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>next(),</b> <b>prior()</b>
function templates, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
<li><a href="range/index.html">range</a> - A new infrastructure
for generic algorithms that builds on top
of the new iterator concepts, from Thorsten Ottosen.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Function-objects">Function objects</a> and higher-order programming</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="bind/bind.html">bind</a> and <a href="bind/mem_fn.html"> mem_fn</a> - Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions, from Peter Dimov.</li>
<li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><a href="functional/index.html">functional</a> - Enhanced
function object adaptors, from Mark Rodgers.</li>
<li><a href="functional/hash/index.html">functional/hash</a> -
A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined
types, from Daniel James.</li>
<li><a href="lambda/index.html">lambda</a> - Define small unnamed
function objects at the actual call site, and more, from Jaakko Järvi and
Gary Powell.</li>
<li><a href="bind/ref.html">ref</a> - A utility library for
passing references to generic functions, from Jaako Järvi,
Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor, and Dave Abrahams.</li>
<li><a href="signals/index.html">signals</a> - managed signals &
slots callback implementation, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><a href="utility/utility.htm#result_of">result_of</a> - determines the type of a function call expression.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Generic">Generic</a> Programming</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="utility/call_traits.htm">call_traits</a> -
Defines types for passing parameters, from John Maddock,
Howard Hinnant, et al.</li>
<li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
- Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="utility/enable_if.html">enable_if</a> -
Selective inclusion of function template overloads, from Jaakko
Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock, and Andrew Lumsdaine.</li>
<li><a href="utility/in_place_factories.html">in_place_factory, typed_in_place_factory</a>- Generic in-place construction
of contained objects with a variadic argument-list, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
and Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="property_map/property_map.html">property map</a>
- Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to
value objects, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
- Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Template <a name="Metaprogramming"> Metaprogramming</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="mpl/doc/index.html">mpl</a> - Template metaprogramming
framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunction classes,
from Aleksey Gurtovoy.</li>
<li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
- Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="type_traits/index.html">type_traits</a> -
Templates for fundamental properties of types, from John
Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Preprocessor">Preprocessor</a> Metaprogramming</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="preprocessor/doc/index.html">preprocessor</a> - Preprocessor
metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion, from Vesa Karvonen
and Paul Mensonides.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Concurrent">Concurrent</a> Programming</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="thread/doc/index.html">thread</a> - Portable C++
multi-threading, from William Kempf.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Math">Math</a> and numerics</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="math/doc/index.html">math</a> - Several contributions in the
domain of mathematics, from various authors.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><a href="integer/index.html">integer</a> - Headers to ease
dealing with integral types.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/interval/doc/interval.htm">interval </a>- Extends the
usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals, from Guillaume
Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion.</li>
<li><a href="math/doc/common_factor.html">math/common_factor</a> - Greatest
common divisor and least common multiple, from Daryle Walker.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/octonions.html">math/octonion</a> -
Octonions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/quaternions.html">math/quaternion</a> -
Quaternions, from Hubert Holin.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/boost_math/math_special_functions.html">math/special_functions</a> -
Mathematical special functions such as atanh, sinc, and sinhc,
from Hubert Holin.</li>
<li><a href="multi_array/doc/index.html">multi_array</a> - Multidimensional
containers and adaptors for arrays of contiguous data, from Ron Garcia.</li>
<li><a href="utility/operators.htm">operators</a> - Templates
ease arithmetic classes and iterators, from Dave Abrahams
and Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="random/index.html">random</a> - A complete
system for random number generation, from Jens Maurer.</li>
<li><a href="rational/index.html">rational</a> - A rational
number class, from Paul Moore.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm">uBLAS</a> - Basic linear algebra
for dense, packed and sparse matrices, from Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Correctness">Correctness</a> and testing</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="concept_check/concept_check.htm">concept check</a>
- Tools for generic programming, from Jeremy Siek.</li>
<li><a href="static_assert/static_assert.htm">static_assert</a>
- Static assertions (compile time assertions), from John
Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="test/doc/index.html">test</a> - Support for simple program testing,
full unit testing, and for program
execution monitoring, from Gennadiy Rozental.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Data">Data</a> structures</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="any/index.html">any</a> - Safe, generic container for single
values of different value types, from Kevlin Henney.</li>
<li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
- Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
Hinnant, et al.</li>
<li><a href="multi_index/doc/index.html">multi_index</a> - Containers with
multiple STL-compatible access interfaces, from Joaquín M López
Muñoz.</li>
<li><a href="ptr_container/index.html">pointer container</a>
- Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming, from Thorsten Ottosen. </li>
<li><a href="tuple/doc/tuple_users_guide.html">tuple</a> - Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more,
from Jaakko Järvi.</li>
<li><a href="variant/index.html">variant</a> - Safe, generic, stack-based
discriminated union container, from Eric Friedman and Itay Maman.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="IO">Input/Output</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="format/index.html">format</a> - Type-safe 'printf-like' format
operations, from Samuel Krempp.</li>
<li><a href="io/doc/ios_state.html">io state savers</a> - Save I/O state to
prevent jumbled data, from Daryle Walker.</li>
<li><a href="iostreams/doc/index.html">iostreams</a> - Framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters, from Jonathan Turkanis.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
<li><a href="serialization/doc/index.html">serialization</a> - Serialization
of arbitrary data for persistence and marshalling, from Robert Ramey</li>
<li><a href="assign/index.html">assign</a> - Filling containers
with constant or generated data has never been
easier, from Thorsten Ottosen.
</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Inter-language">Inter-language</a> support</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="python/doc/index.html">python</a> - Reflects C++
classes and functions into <a
href="http://www.python.org">Python</a>, from Dave
Abrahams.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Memory">Memory</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="pool/doc/index.html">pool</a> - Memory pool management, from
Steve Cleary.</li>
<li><a href="smart_ptr/index.html">smart_ptr</a> - Five smart
pointer class templates, from Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes,
Peter Dimov, and Darin Adler.</li>
<li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>
<b>prior()</b>
function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Parsing">Parsing</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="spirit/index.html">spirit</a> - LL parser framework
represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++, from Joel de
Guzman and team.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Programming">Programming Interfaces</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="function/index.html">function</a> - Function object wrappers
for deferred calls or callbacks, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><span class="library"><a href=
"parameter/doc/html/index.html">parameter</a></span> -
Write functions that accept arguments by name, by David Abrahams
and Daniel Wallin.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="utility/base_from_member.html">base-from-member</a> - Idiom to
initialize a base class with a member, from Daryle Walker.</li>
<li><a href="utility/compressed_pair.htm">compressed_pair</a>
- Empty member optimization, from John Maddock, Howard
Hinnant, et al.</li>
<li><a href="conversion/index.html">conversion</a> - Polymorphic and lexical casts, from Dave Abrahams and
Kevlin Henney.</li>
<li><a href="numeric/conversion/index.html">numeric/conversion</a> - Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions,
from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><a href="crc/index.html">crc</a> - Cyclic Redundancy Code, from Daryle
Walker.</li>
<li><a href="date_time/doc/index.html">date_time</a> - Date-Time library from Jeff Garland.</li>
<li><a href="filesystem/doc/index.htm">filesystem</a> - Portable paths,
iteration over directories, and other useful filesystem operations, from
Beman Dawes.</li>
<li><a href="optional/doc/optional.html">optional</a> - Discriminated-union
wrapper for optional values, from Fernando Cacciola.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/program_options.html">program_options</a> - Access to configuration
data given on command line, in config files and other sources, from Vladimir Prus.</li>
<li><a href="statechart/doc/index.html">statechart</a> - Arbitrarily
complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and
maintainable C++ code, from Andreas Huber.</li>
<li><a href="timer/index.html">timer</a> - Event timer,
progress timer, and progress display classes, from Beman
Dawes.</li>
<li><a href="tr1/index.html">TR1</a> - An implementation of the Technical
Report on C++ Library Extensions, using other Boost libraries as a basis, from John Maddock.</li>
<li><a href="../doc/html/tribool.html">tribool</a> - 3-state boolean type library, from Doug Gregor.</li>
<li><a href="typeof/index.html">typeof</a> -
Typeof operator emulation, from Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt.</li>
<li><a href="utility/utility.htm">utility</a> - Class <b>noncopyable</b>
plus <b>checked_delete()</b>, <b>checked_array_delete()</b>, <b>next(),</b>
<b>prior()</b>
function templates, plus <b>base-from-member idiom</b>, from Dave Abrahams and others. </li>
<li><a href="utility/value_init.htm">value_initialized</a> - Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization,
from Fernando Cacciola, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Broken compiler <a name="workarounds">workarounds</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="compatibility/index.html">compatibility</a> - Help for
non-conforming standard libraries, from Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens
Maurer.</li>
<li><a href="config/config.htm">config</a> - Helps boost
library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not
intended for library users.</li>
</ul>
<p>[Category suggestions from Aleksey Gurtovoy and Beman Dawes]</p>
<hr>
<h2>Libraries <a name="Removed">Retired</a> from Boost</h2>
<ul>
<li>compose - Functional composition adapters for the STL,
from Nicolai Josuttis. Removed in Boost version 1.32.
Please use <a href="bind/bind.html">Bind</a> or <a
href="lambda/index.html">Lambda</a> instead.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Revised
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<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes 2000-2004</p>
<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
(See accompanying file <a href="../LICENSE_1_0.txt">LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>
or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
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