Re: [boost] typeof() substitute.

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-30 07:28:59

From: "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]>
> 
> I'm at a seminar right now where Steve Dewhurst has presented his
> technique for implementing typeof. It has the nice feature that you
> only need to register UDTs, and the system is then able to cope with
> them in all other type contexts including arrays, pointers, function
> (pointers/references), etc., etc. This technique was also covered in a
> recent CUJ article. I imagine it /might/ save some significant amount
> of code in Boost.Lambda and Spirit's Phoenix extension to take
> advantage of this approach. I think implementing it with MPL would
> make it a lot easier. Thoughts?

What does it say about typeof(std::cout << 5)?