Re: [boost] Typeof support in 1.34 (was 1.34 Release Plan)

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-25 17:00:10

Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
> 
> I don't think we have Eric's opinion about the scheme...  Eric, have you
> seen the discussion about consistent type registration?
> 

I skimmed it and it seems over-engineered to me. IMO, the libraries that 
will want typeof support are those which have complicated intermediate 
types -- the expression template libraries. And for those libraries, 
you'll need to register all the types that could show up in the 
resulting expression. Those can all go in one file. Done. I don't see a 
compelling reason to make it more complicated.

What is the argument for separate files? Compile times? Has anyone measured?

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