Re: [boost] [function types] Formal Review begins today.

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-18 09:36:49

Andy Little wrote:
> 
> Note that the feed_function doesnt check the arity ( or number of 
> elements) of

^^^ Is there a way to do this with Boost.Tuple ?
If there is I was too blind to find it reading the docs and taking a brief look 
at its source...

> the tuple. However may be this could be useful. Perhaps one could add a 
> range
> parameter specifying which range of args in the tuple to use.

Boost.Tuple is a very basic tuples implementation.  Fusion (which is still work 
in progress and lives in the spirit folder) is way more flexibile (for this 
particular case you can define a view from a pair of iterators).

> 
> IMO Its daft that there are traits for variables and not traits for 
> functions,
> which this library addresses. I reckon  that there are many potential 
> uses of
> this library, especially in FP style programming.  Perhaps this library 
> will
> help to open them up.
> 
> FWIW I  change my vote. I vote to accept the library into boost.

Great! And thanks for your ideas & code!

Regards,

Tobias