[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal: type-promoting arithmeticsforderivativetypes

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-26 16:01:56

"Brian McNamara" <lorgon_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20040226202020.GB14909_at_lennon.cc.gatech.edu...
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:33:29AM -0600, Max Motovilov wrote:
> > Which might not be so bad after all, except for the fact that the
operators
> > we inject are now as generic as can be (mine were at least limited
to
> > SomeTemplate<T> arguments), with only SFINAE to protect us from
mayhem...
>
> IMO, you are either going to rely on SFINAE or you are not.  In this
> case, it seems clear that you need enable_if to make the
implementation
> work.  So use it, trust in it, and let broken compilers be darned!
>

Yes, my sentiments exactly. But I would use stronger language ;-)

Jonathan