Re: [boost] [MPL] interest in algo that creates all possible permutations of a type?

From: Simon Carter (simon.carter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-11 09:07:38

Alberto Ganesh Barbati <abarbati <at> iaanus.com> writes:

> 
> Kevin Sopp wrote:
> > 
>  > Given a type T which is a model of MPL lambda expression, permute<T,
> Args1,

<snip>

> What I would like
> to say is that you should choose a name different from "permute" because
> it is misleading....
> ....In other words "permute" conveys the concept
> that you already have a list of types and you provide a different
> re-ordering of such list (compare with std::next_permutation,
> std::last_permutation). 
> 

The word you are looking for is combination (combine)

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