[boost] Re: Stdint header?

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-03 20:11:04

At 07:28 PM 8/3/99 +0100, Kevlin Henney wrote:

>Beman Dawes wrote:
>While the template approach seems conceptually more elegant, I find
>the resulting user code unbearably ugly.  The typedef and constant
>approach is basically stdint.h without the macros, a nice
advantange.
>
>   True, but it might be argued that the template approach is in
many ways
>   consistent w/ the way types are found from templates in the
standard
>   library.
>
>Kevlin, what did your template approach look like?
>
>     int_exact<32>::type
>     int_least<32>::type

That strikes me as better than having a single type with
exact/least/fast/etc types embedded.  Not sure exactly why, but my
gut feeling is it would extend better.

--Beman