Re: [boost] Tuple library accepted

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-29 04:05:46

From: "John Max Skaller" <skaller_at_[hidden]>

> Jeremy Siek wrote:
>
> > I am concerned with the compile-time and complexity issues of bringing
in
> > the whole tuple library when all I need is a two-argument bind().
>
> That's a pragmatic concern at the moment, but I'd like to suggest
> that the tuples library, when Standardised, should strongly
> recommend support for tuples of up to 10,000 elements.
> In other words, there'd be no header file at all,
> the compiler would have to generate instances on demand.
>
> This gets rid of the compile time overhead completely,
> allows a reasonable limit on the size of tuples,
> allows important optimisations, and may be mandatory
> for generalising certain other library components
> efficiently.

This would probably be a step in the right direction, but the more important
issue is how do you get from the function call expression

f(x, y, z, 5)

a tuple containing the arguments.

Writing 10,000 operator()'s doesn't feel right. :-)

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Peter Dimov
Multi Media Ltd.