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

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-27 10:17:55

Doug Gregor wrote:

>On Thursday 29 July 2004 9:22 am, Tobias Schwinger wrote:
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>>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  ?
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>AFAIK, it's just not yet implemented.
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>>In the latter case I hereby volunteer for implementing it.
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>Great!
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Got an initial version together which is (AFAIK, hopefully) worth 
looking at.

If there is still interest in a submission, I need to know where to put it.

{CVS/ftp/scp [need an account then], mail [need to know where], my web 
server [not sure this is legal since parts are based on code written by 
other boost authors] }

>>[...first design ideas...]
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>Sounds good to me.
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Inspired by people on the list and in depth analysis of the existing 
library code, the objective of

"adding something like function_traits, but for member function pointers"

has evolved to

"providing a set of metafunctions conforming to the concepts commonly 
used troughout the library (such as type-trait,bool-trait,...) to 
classify and decompose function pointer types"

According to the review docs this seems to be a fast-track candidate, 
however I would very much welcome anyone willing to build an example 
program with some compilers not tested with so far, before formally 
requesting for review.

Regards,

Tobias