Re: [boost] [review] pqs

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-07 08:37:22

"David A. Greene" <greened_at_[hidden]> writes:

> It is also, IMHO, one of the best practical examples of template
> metaprogramming.

I just want to clear something up about this.  It's not directed at
PQS in particular, but at the whole domain of dimensional analysis as
an example of TMP.

Dimensional analysis is really a very poor example of what TMP can do:
interesting TMP involves some generation of code that actually "does
something," as in the state machine example in C++TMP or Blitz++
expression templates or Boost.Lambda.  Dimensional analysis basically
only adds error messages where they wouldn't otherwise have been.

I recently had the same conversation with Scott Meyers, so you're not
in bad company ;-)

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Dave Abrahams
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