Re: [boost] call_traits/type_traits and VC6

From: John Maddock (John_Maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-10-03 06:47:46

>A couple of suggestions:
>
>1) You probably will want to retain something like the PointerShim class
below

Ahah!  That one had been bothering me - I came up with a really cludgy
workaround yesterday (and have a couple of others still to try), but that
looks like a sound idea.

>2) Right now is_same<int, int&>, is_ptr<int*&> return true. This 
>seems undesirable. Perhaps you might make use of the is_reference 
>metafunction in the implementations of the misbehaving metafunctions. 
>Of course the test suite could be augmented too.

Yes, good thinking.

- John.