[boost] Re: Type Traits, Take Two

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (Gabriel.Dos-Reis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-01-06 03:38:55

scleary_at_[hidden] writes:

| I've messed around with the type traits as we have them so far, and have
| come up with the following scheme for type classification:
| 
| Basically, for numeric types, I chose the following numeric categories as
| suggested by the Standard:
|   unsigned integral
|   signed integral
|   integral (= unsigned integral + signed integral
|       + any integral types without defined 'signedness' (bool, char,
| wchar_t))

As this is an entry on the LWG issue list, could you tell me how do
you deem a type to be signed? Just it is written 'signed foo'?
This is an important question for 'char'.

-- Gaby