[boost] Re: Re: Re: loki::type_list == boost::mpl::list_node

From: Andrei Alexandrescu (andrewalex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-04-18 09:13:59

"David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:005e01c1e68c$871cb520$6501a8c0_at_boostconsulting.com...
> One very simple example of why you'd want to work with a different
type
> sequence (and this doesn't even speak to differences in structure)
is
> that you might want to operate on the sequence of types held by a
> boost::tuple. One ought to be able to re-use the metaprogramming
library
> for that purpose.

One could use dot-typelists to represent tuple's compound type, right?
That's what Loki does in its very embrionary Tuple class.

Andrei