Re: [boost] Re: Re: Using MPL on MSVC7

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-03 10:22:51

Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Second thing: you can save yourself lots of typenames by taking
>> advantage of the way MPL lets you pass an uninstantiated metafunction,
>> without getting its nested ::type member, wherever a bool_c<...> is
>> expected:
>
> Uhm, that's not exactly correct. I would re-formulate it along these lines:
>
> To reduce the notational overhead imposed by the specifics of the
> compile-time domain, many of MPL metafunctions, when fully-curried (provided
> with all arguments), directly support the interface of the Integral Constant
> concept:

Yes, I was using shorthand.  But I guess if we're putting together
tutorial WIKI pages, an accurate description is in order.  Thanks.

-Dave

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