[boost] Re: type_traits on steroids

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-16 05:28:09

Hello Preston,

Preston A. Elder wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:45:11 -0400, Preston A. Elder wrote:
> 
> There is a solution here:
> http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg71111.php
> 
> And it WORKS! :)
> 
> The question is now, what is the status of this being included into boost?
> This is a very highly useful library :)
> 

It's under development. Unfortunately the process is rather slow lately, 
because Terje and me are very busy.

There's still a lot to be done to consistently meet Boost quality and 
there are some very useful changes in the pipeline [ inspired by this 
paper:  http://tinyurl.com/arqo9 ], however, these are only my sketches, 
right now.

It is currently in flux and it will be another few months until we can 
talk about an "official preview version".

The part of the interface which deals with operator detection is pretty 
much stable (although there will be minor changes - e.g. I'm planning on 
renaming 'has_comma_op' to 'has_user_defined_comma_op', otherwise it 
would always have to return 'true' to be consistent with the others; 
probably the ones that cannot be detected without registration will be 
moved away from this directory).

Regards,

Tobias