Re: [boost] Submission: typelist

From: Mark Rodgers (mark.rodgers_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-28 08:52:02

From: "Andrei Alexandrescu" <andrewalex_at_[hidden]>
> Another prefatory remark, not too jokey this time, is that typelists are
> essential to a very large subset of Loki. As I mentioned in another post,
> typelists are used in Factory, Functor, Tuple, Visitor, DoubleDispatcher,
> and the two hierarchy generators. In the future I'm sure Observer,
> Composite, and other generic components I work on will use typelists as
> well. That's why I started by submitting typelists to boost as part of my
> plan of submitting the whole Loki to boost.

You need to have some sort of type list available - does it need to be
Loki's?  Is there any good reason why you could not submit a version of
Loki that is build on top of MPL's type lists?  Does it matter to Factory,
etc how the type list is implemented?

Mark