[boost] Re: Re: Hello MPL world!

From: David B. Held (dheld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-06 18:31:55

"Howard Hinnant" <hinnant_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:B51723AE-21C5-11D7-ABFF-003065D18932_at_twcny.rr.com...
> [...]
> I would be careful that your target audience doesn't look at the
> "helloworld" and say, gee, why don't I just use existing language
> features:
> [...]

There's a point.  Maybe using a traits class that is much more
difficult to hand-roll would drive home the point...like is_same<>,
is_class<>, etc.  I'm afraid that the benefits of MPL don't become
obvious until you start to do some really tricky stuff, even though I
also tend to use it for things where I could just use PTS.

Dave