Re: [boost] Re: Re: Deadline for the Standard Library TechnicalReport

From: Gabriel Dos Reis (gdr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-29 01:25:59

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:

| "David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> writes:
| 
| > "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
| > news:000d01c2c6f3$85038c30$1d00a8c0_at_pdimov2...
| >> [...]
| >> By the way, the current typedef template proposal prohibits deduction;
| >> this makes it less attractive for creating subpointers.
| >
| > Ouch!  Is this due to complexity issues, or was it just not deemed useful??
| 
| It's hard to say why, exactly, but my sense of it was that it was done
| because it was easy to specify semantics that were identical to those
| of the existing metafunction-form workaround.

My recollection is a little different :-)

-- Gaby