Re: [boost] RE: Submission: typelist

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-27 19:33:22

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_[hidden]>

> From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
> > From: "Jonathan H Lundquist" <jhl_at_[hidden]>
> > > More importantly, I could get my mind around the problem in order to
do
> > so.
> > > Don't know if I could with mpl or not, but the 127 files asserted by
> > Andrei
> > > certainly sounds daunting...
> >
> > While some things in MPL are undeniably too complicated, we shouldn't be
> too
> > impressed by the number of files. Every single algorithm/component is
> > implemented in a separate file. Boost organization has evolved in that
> > direction, and I think Aleksey was just anticipating the review
comments.
>
> Maybe we should look at the total file sizes or the number of lines of
code?

I'm sure there's no contest. I believe that MPL is much bigger than your
submission. It has a lot more stuff, some of which is useful.

-Dave