[boost] Re: Type Traits, Take Two

From: scleary_at_[hidden]
Date: 2000-01-06 08:22:49

>  >
>  > Then I divided these numeric types into three sources:
>  >   standard - those types specifically required by the Standard
>  >   extension - those types provided as a compiler extension
>  >   user-supplied - those types that specialize std::numeric_limits
>  > And created the following categories:
>  >   standard - any numeric type of standard source
>  >   extension - any numeric type of extension source (NOT standard)
>  >   builtin (= standard + extension)
>  >   {no name} - the default includes all sources
>
> Just curious, what's the purpose of this set of categories?
>

The main reason I put this here is so that library code can distinguish
between builtin numeric types and classes.  I also distinguished between
compiler extensions and C++ language definitions -- I just figured this
might be useful in the future.

        -Steve