[boost] Re: Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: overloads-20050207.tar.gz

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-10 01:04:44

Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> --
> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Alexander,
>>
>> If you want to convince people that your idea is useful it would be a
>> good idea to make it easier for them to understand why.  While I
>> understand everything you've written above, I still don't know why
>> I'd want this, and I'm not prepared to reverse-engineer an example
>> FSM implementation to find out.
>
> I don't know what do you mean exactly but I'm not yet going to
> convince people to use it because I'm in the middle of switching it
> from old interface to MPL set style.

What I would like to know is why you want to represent overload sets as
compile-time collections: what sort of computations can you do with them in
practice? I'm not expressing any scepticism that it's useful, I just want more
information.

Jonathan