Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: move_ptr

From: Daniel Wallin (dalwan01_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-22 04:39:53

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> "Daniel Wallin" <dalwan01_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>>You almost certainly don't want this. If you need to generate the
>>deleter type somehow, make it a metafunction class.
> 
> 
> I stay away from template template parameters most of the time, for
> the sake of old compilers. But here we're relying heavily on SFINAE,
> so I don't see the need. 

Actually we are not really relying on SFINAE at all. I got it working on
VC7, and likely it won't break on VC6 either.

> In one of my earlier posts the policies were
> (implicitly) metafunction classes, but when I actually sat down to
> write them it seemed to make the code needlessly obscure. I'm trying
> to be careful not to complicate things too much ;-). Its no big deal
> to switch later.

There's more reasons than support for old compilers to go for
metafunction classes though, check out the MPL paper.

-- 
Daniel Wallin