Re: [boost] Re: is_convertible corner case

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-25 11:32:17

--- Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Again, I like the approach to not put in the core language
> facilities that can be implemented with normal code but the order is:
> first I see what I want to get, then I see if it can be implemented.
> Here we seem to do the inverse: we see what can be done in current
> C++, and if it is not enough (because I can't do access checking) we
> are contented anyway. Seems a surrogate to me.

I want to clarify that this attitude depends on the fact that we are talking
about something that will go into C++0x. If it was just boost code than we
could all be contented with what normal C++ code can do; when it comes to
something candidate to standardization instead the question is different.

Genny.

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