Re: [boost] Re: Re: Using MPL on MSVC7

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-02 06:49:27

From: "Aleksey Gurtovoy" <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]>
>
> In short, my motivation for using 'typename's here is that I perceive the
> 'class' keyword as rather high-weight, semantically loaded, and prefer to
> use it in its only original context - that is, for declaring/defining a
> user-defined type that is more than a POD. Using it in other places
cheapens
> the word.

I used to buy this argument once, too. ;-)

FWIW, a practical consideration is that

#define typename

(on a compiler that doesn't need 'typename' and has trouble ignoring it)
will break your code. (Of course this compiler isn't likely to work with MPL
anyway.)