Re: [boost] Re: Safe bool idiom

From: Howard Hinnant (hinnant_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-11 11:22:13

On Sep 11, 2003, at 11:51 AM, David Abrahams wrote:

> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
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>> This improvement has been first suggested by Daveed Vandevoorde.
>
> Are you sure?  I didn't hear it from Daveed until after:
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>    http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg44446.php
>
> which was mostly ignored so I figured nobody cared.

More likely nobody understood.

Daveed's (and Nico's) suggestion is documented in "C++ Templates", Nov. 
2002.  Looks like he's got you beat by 3 months. :-)

-Howard