Re: [boost] Submission: typelist

From: Hamish Mackenzie (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-27 19:19:05

On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 00:01, David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hamish Mackenzie" <boost_at_[hidden]>
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 22:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > > This is going to be a very long post,
> > so I won't quote it here
> >
> > As I have not yet used mpl or loki (and MC++D is on my christmas list
> > :-) ) I might be out of my depth but....
> >
> > 1) Could the name mpl::type_list be depreciated in favor of typevector
> > or type_vector which is perhaps more descriptive of its interface (even
> > if it is implemented with a singly linked list)? This makes sense to me
> > as the class mpl::type_list isn't even a list in the prolog sense
> > (mpl::list_node is).
> 
> mpl's type_vector is different from type_list: it is of fixed maximum
> length, and allows compile-time random access. This is a significant
> difference and can be a real advantage on compilers with slow template
> instantiation.

Is type_array taken?

Hamish