Re: [boost] New members of functional.hpp

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-09-07 06:53:18

Write up a proposal, post it to the committee reflector and comp.std.c++,
and show up at the next few committee meetings to promote/defend it. Simple,
eh ;) ?

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] New members of functional.hpp

> > > The result is completely deducable by the compiler, at least
> > > in theory.  Its just the return type of operator+(Arg1, Arg2).
> > > (Am I wrong here? -- i.e. can you have two different operator+?).
> > >
> > > However, I don't see how to implement this. :-(
> >
> > Nobody does ;-). That's the classic "typeof()" problem, and one reason
> that
> > it's hard to write lambda expressions in C++.
>
> Is there anything we can do about getting typeof() in the language? In the
> de facto standard, at least.
>
> --
> Peter Dimov
> Multi Media Ltd.
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