Re: [boost] Re: compile time asserts [preconditions]

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-07-31 22:11:04

Alice could only look puzzled: she was thinking of the pudding. 

`You are sad,' the Knight said in an anxious tone: `let me sing 
you a song to comfort you.' 

`Is it very long?' Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of 
poetry that day. 

`It's long,' said the Knight, `but it's very, very beautiful. 
Everybody that hears me sing it -- either it brings the tears into 
their eyes, or else --' 

`Or else what?' said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden 
pause. 

`Or else it doesn't, you know. The name of the song is called 
"Haddocks' Eyes".' 

`Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?' Alice said, trying to 
feel interested. 

`No, you don't understand,' the Knight said, looking a little 
vexed. `That's what the name is called. The name really is "The 
Aged Aged Man".' 

`Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called"?' 
Alice corrected herself. 

`No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 
"Ways and Means": but that's only what it's called, you know!' 

`Well, what is the song, then?' said Alice, who was by this time 
completely bewildered. 

`I was coming to that,' the Knight said. `The song really is "A-
sitting On a Gate": and the tune's my own invention.' 

So saying, he stopped his horse and let the reins fall on its 
neck: then, slowly beating time with one hand, and with a faint 
smile lighting up his gentle foolish face, as if he enjoyed the 
music of his song, he began.