Re: [boost] Boost Overload Documentation

From: Marco Costalba (mcostalba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-11 13:18:17

On 10/11/07, Marco <mrcekets_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Thanks to you Marco,
> I hope that you find the time to propose your hints and suggestions,
> they will be very appreciated.
>

Just a question.

Why do you foreseen

f.set<5>(f6);
f.set<sig5_t>(f5);

instead of just

 f.set(f6);
 f.set(f5);

Normally you should have a good reason to allow redundancy in the API,
in other words if
the above just works the by-index and by-sig features would seem to me
more error prone and I fail to see the advantages.

Thanks
Marco

P.S: for "redundancy" I don't mean that does exist more way to do the
same thing but that the API

f.set<5>(f6);

specify two times where to store f6, one directly with <5> and one
indirect through signature of f6