Re: [boost] boost::tuples

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-06 19:13:56

Dennis D Bingaman wrote:
> I have been using the STL for some time now and have been investigating 
> possible use of the boost libraries in future projects.  The most useful 
> library I have found so far was the boost::lamda library.  I was reading 
> the documentation and experimenting around with the boost::tuples library. 
>  The documentation is excellent and very complete and now I understand how 
> to create tuples and maybe use them is some limited way.  Thing is, I 
> can't seem to grasp what advantages there are of tuples over structures 
> and classes?  Can someone tell me; what are the benefits of tuples over 
> structures or classes?

In a word, "genericity". Tuples will let you do things like, ehm Fusion ;-)

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