RE: [boost] Comments on the thread library

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-02 11:31:41

At 09:41 AM 3/26/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >In the generative interfaces I have seen, the parameters name themselves.
 >Using named template parameters is overkill in this situation. What we
 >want,
 >for ease-of-use, is simply an interface that allows the parameters to be
 >passed in any order. That is,
 >
 >  mutex_generator<checked, nonrecursive>::type
 >
 >is self-documenting, but should be equivalent to
 >
 >  mutex_generator<nonrecursive, checked>::type

The smart pointer experiments I posted last fall did that.  See 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/boost/files/TMPX/experiment6.hpp

Thus you could code:

   smart_ptr_generator< my_type, invasive | implicit_convert >::type x;

or:

   smart_ptr_generator< my_type, implicit_convert | invasive >::type x;

--Beman