Re: [boost] [type_traits] "member_function_pointer_traits" ?

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-29 10:30:04

On Thursday 29 July 2004 9:22 am, Tobias Schwinger wrote:
> Dear Boosters,
>
>
> what is the reason for the absence of  "member_function_pointer_traits"
> (or alike) in the type_traits library ?
> To be precise: is it a design decision or just something not yet
> implemented  ?

AFAIK, it's just not yet implemented.

> In the latter case I hereby volunteer for implementing it.

Great!

> I suggest an interface similar to the one of function_traits but with
> two additional constants for 'const' and 'volatile' qualification of the
> pointee method, because there is no member function type without the
> pointer thus making it impossible to use remove_pointer / is_[qualifier]
> or pass 'Class::member_function' (without the '&', that is) as an
> argument of parametrized type to a template function.

Sounds good to me.

        Doug