Re: [boost] Submission: typelist

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-26 16:07:41

On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 03:30  PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
>> BTW, isn't "identity" a much better name than "type2type"?
>
> Identity sounds great, I'll make that change unless there is a lot of
> opposition.

identity sends up a red flag with me because of:

http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/identity.html

Today they are in different namespaces so who cares.  But I think both 
are realistic candidates for standardization.

Otoh, SGI's identity is practically a superset of Loki::Type2Type.  What 
about adopting SGI's identity?

-Howard