Re: [boost] Re: typelists: MPL tutorial + partial review

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-12-12 14:10:37

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Peter Dimov wrote:
> The novel paradigm presented by MPL is indeed very interesting, but there is
> no reason for this paradigm to "compete" with the old-school Lisp approach.
> It must be implemented on top of it. Just like the STL for_each is
> implemented on top of the old C-style for loop, and the STL does not
> _prevent_ me from using a for loop if I so desire.
>
> As a starting point, we simply need to define the standard A.B data
> structure of compile-time C++. Anything else can be implemented on top of
> it. I don't see why the existence of MPL should change that.

Amen!

Cheers,
Jeremy

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