Re: [boost] [function types][review]

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 11:39:18

David Abrahams wrote:
> "John Maddock" <john_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
> 
>>>Like taking the address of an overloaded function or function template
>>>instantiation ??
>>
>>Surely you can always just declare your function type as a typedef in that 
>>case, without going through function_type?
>>
>>function_type is only useful in that it unpacks an mpl sequence defining the 
>>argument list into the function type, but that's only useful if you have an 
>>the mpl sequence to begin with.  It's those situations I'm finding hard to 
>>imagine at present.
> 
> 
> I have a use for it -- but it's less useful if the sequence is
> nonuniform and fails to include the class type of member functions ;-)
> 

In fact, at this very point (type synthesis - "function_type") the input 
sequence does include it ;-).