RE: [boost] Submission: typelist

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (alexy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-28 11:45:55

David Abrahams wrote:
> > If Andrei were to rework his type list submission so that
> > it matched the mpl interface, we could get it accepted
> > earlier than mpl and people could begin to use it.  We
> > could then go on to debate the merits of the rest of
> > the mpl and the alternative implementation without worrying
> > that we'd already accepted a completely different and
> > incompatible type list.
> 
> It's not a bad idea, but mpl has some specific idioms which need some 
> examination. For example, in mpl, a metafunction is spelled this way:
> 
> struct function
> {
> 	template <class T, ...>
> 	struct apply
> 	{
> 		typedef ...  type;
> 		static ... const value = ...;
> 	};
> };

Well, Loki doesn't have algorithms that take meta-functions, so we are safe
to debate it in a length without affecting any dates :).

Aleksey