Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Warning: Incoming

Subject: Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Warning: Incoming
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-01 19:05:53

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On 7/1/2011 4:01 PM, Paul Mensonides wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:44:42 +0000, Paul Mensonides wrote:
>> 1) It forces a particular argument order.  By itself, this isn't
>> the end of the world, but either tends to break symmetries or tends
>> to require argument orders to change on a bunch of other things.
>> 2) It does not play well with overloading (via number of arguments
>> with macros--which you can do, via specialization of templates, or
>> via plain overloading of functions).
>> 3) It frequently destroys the ability to use default arguments
>> (which could be accounted for if it weren't for #2).
>> 4) It does not work when multiple data structures need to be passed
>> (e.g. Cartesian products).
>> 5) It removes the ability to use the *single* variadic clump for
>> other stuff.
> 
> 6) Such a data structure cannot nest.

All good points. Thanks,

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Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
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