[boost] Re: call_traits

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-05 18:24:34

What are the issues with call_traits which make it unusable ?

Doug Gregor wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2004, at 3:55 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Take care with call_traits.  The documentation isn't very clear about
>> how it behaves in all circumstances (especially on broken compilers).
>> I would be inclined to build my own individual metafunctions (rather
>> than traits "blobs") for doing the kinds of thigs that call_traits
>> tries to address.
>
> Perhaps we should deblobify call_traits (putting the resulting
> fine-grained traits into the type_traits lib) and deprecate it?