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

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-25 21:50:20

At 07:32 AM 11/25/2001, John Maddock wrote:

 >Afterwards I realised that there are three possible names here:
 >
 >is_public_base<base,Derived>,
 >is_superclass<base,derived>
 >is_subclass<derived, base>
 >
 >Of course they all do the same thing, so we only need one of these - it
 >depends on which way you look at it I guess - personally I prefer
 >"is_public_base", as it's the easiest to understand what it does (I 
always
 >get "superclass" and "subclass" mixed up, and I'm sure I'm not alone!)

Any number of otherwise intelligent people mix up "superclass" and 
"subclass", which aren't really usual C++ terms anyhow.  OTOH, 
is_public_base uses familiar C++ terminology.

--Beman