[boost] Re: Re: Re: FSM Review

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-07 11:00:31

Jason Hise wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

>> Iain K. Hanson wrote:

>> conclusions from computational completeness. There are still some
>> things you can't do in metaprograms, such as write "Hello World" to
>> standard output. ;-)

> Output:

> 'Hello_World' : undeclared identifier
> 'This_is_a_message_that_is_printed_to_the_list_of_errors' : undeclared
> identifier

:-)

The first C++ metaprogram was supposedly like this: it just generated error
messages enumerating primes. My guess is that Boost.FSM would not attract many
users if it just generated error messages. ;-)

Jonathan