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From: Alexander Nasonov (alnsn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-11 23:54:44


David Abrahams wrote:
> FWIW, we didn't cover as_sequence in the book because we really
> couldn't come up with a use case that justified the non-uniformity in
> generic programs. If the type you pass happens to be a sequence
> already it gets treated differently :(.

I don't quite understand your negative reaction on difference. A lot of
things are different :)
If you couldn't find a good use case for generic programs, may be we
could try find something interesting for "real" (I mean not generic)
programs?

-- 
Alexander Nasonov

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