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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-23 08:19:30


"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

> From: "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> I've been talking with Aleksey recently about how to improve the
>> syntactic situation without losing the separation of concerns that we
>> get, but we didn't come up with anything convincingly better. I think
>> a long time ago the for_each parameter used to look like:
>>
>> class f
>> {
>> template <class T>
>> struct apply
>> {
>> static void execute() {...};
>> };
>> };
>>
>> IOW, a metafunction class with a nested 'execute' function. However
>> that's not really any better syntactically, it has problems carrying
>> state, and it's anti-idiomatic.
>
> The state problem is easy:
>
> struct F
> {
> template<class T> void execute();
> };

Which isn't usable portably on all broken platforms, nor is it that
different from:

  struct F
  {
      template <class T> void operator()(T) { ... };
  };

it's-a-bag-'o'-tradeoffs-ly y'rs,
dave

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