Re: [boost] type_traits: add_pointer behavior?

From: John Maddock (jm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-19 06:39:24

> Could we call the current add_pointer<> template addressof_type or
> something, and supply an add_pointer which straightforwardly adds a '*' if
> it's legal to do so?

That's more or less what it does now: everything become a T* except T& which
becomes T*.  I would find it even odder that add_pointer<T&>::type was T&,
since the latter is clearly not a pointer, where as with
add_reference<T&>::type the result is already a reference, and with
add_const <const T>::type the result is already const.

John Maddock
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