Re: [boost] [fusion] More quanfusion

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-13 20:32:47

Andy Little wrote:
> "Joel de Guzman" <joel_at_[hidden]> wrote
>> Some of these elements you mentioned do have generic appeal.
>> static_value and advance_iterator looks general enough. plus, minus
>> etc, have overlaps over other "functional" libraries; fusion seems
>> not to be the right place for it.
> 
> Fusion is the right place to get rid of manual type deduction.  I strongly 
> believe this.
> 

We're talking about functional objects here, right? Like a plus() object 
that uses Boost.Typeof to deduce its result type. Then I agree with Joel 
that Fusion is the wrong place for that. I have a start on such a 
collection of numeric functional objects here:

http://tinyurl.com/zokre

I decided for my work that the right place was to make it a sub-library 
of boost/numeric and put it in boost/numeric/functional.hpp. I am hoping 
to one day have the time to flesh this out and submit it to Boost.

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Eric Niebler
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