Re: [boost] Re: A couple of issues in submitting typelists to boost

From: Ross Smith (r-smith_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-20 01:34:04

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
> > And why do you want this to be a macro?
> 
> I believe that SUPERSUBCLASS is an important, useful abstraction. Writing
> the content of SUPERSUBCLASS inline in code just hides the intent with the
> mechanics.

Yes, but WHY A MACRO?

Much as I admire your code in general, Andrei, you do have this
deplorable tendency to fall in love with the preprocessor. :-) There are
several concepts in MC++D (TYPELIST<n> is another) that, for no good
reason that I can see, you've gratuitously written as macros when they
could be expressed just as easily in safe code.

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