Re: [boost] Submission: typelist

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-28 14:55:59

FWIW, I'm back to liking int_wrapper and type_wrapper ;-/.

On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 02:27 PM, Kevin Cline wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu writes:
>> From: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]>
>>> They're only aliases if you look at them as types. I'm looking at 
>>> them as
>>> metafunctions. They are identity metafunctions which return the same
>>> type/value which has been passed to them.
>>
>> None of type2type nor int2type have the identity function as their 
>> main use.
>> (After all, identity is hardly an interesting function). Their main 
>> use is
>> to convert, as their name says, a type to a type and an integer to a 
>> type,
>> respectively. See http://www.cuj.com/experts/1810/alexandr.htm.
>
> FWIW, I like the original names too.  "int2type" is perfectly clear;
> "type2type" is perhaps not as obvious, but it's a better name than
> anything else proposed so far.
>
> --
> Kevin Cline
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