Re: [boost] Re: Challenge: persistence/typeid lib

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-18 08:47:28

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From: "Nicola Musatti" <objectway_at_[hidden]>

> I may be wrong, but I assume that XTI can't fail to provide a portable
> alternative to type_info<T>::name().

I'm afraid you're wrong. XTI is essentially a compiler which produces a
representation of the interfaces and types that a program declares. It
doesn't give you a replacement for RTTI. For example, it can't help you
produce a representation of the type identifier for a derived class of a
polymorphic base.

-Dave