Re: [boost] Special functions, octonions, quaternions in the CVS

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-24 15:37:54

I have often heard it claimed that anything you can do with template
template parameters, you can also do without them, but better. I am not
familiar with the arguments, so I can't evaluate their validity. Anyway,
maybe Hubert could investigate these techniques to see whether they offer
any improvements in addition to portability.

-Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: [boost] Special functions, octonions, quaternions in the CVS

> At 04:16 AM 6/23/2001, Jens Maurer wrote:
>
>  >The special functions, octonions, and quaternions by Hubert Holin
>  >are now added to the CVS.
>
> On the Win32 regression tests, they are failing all compilers except
> Metrowerks.
>
> As Daryle Walker pointed out, it looks like this is because they use
> template-template parameters.  Unless I missed it, there doesn't seem to
be
> a non-template-template parameter workaround provided.
>
>  >Updates for the regression test results are in progress.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Beman
>
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