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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-29 08:58:45

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 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 :-)

Are you planning to grace us with the contents of your memory, Gaby,
or are you gonna hold us in suspense forever? :-)

come-up-to-the-lab-and-see-what's-on-the-slab-ly y'rs,
-- 
                       David Abrahams
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