Re: [boost] [fusion] variant adapter going away

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-25 21:27:07

on Wed Dec 19 2007, Joel de Guzman <joel-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I intend to remove the variant adapter from fusion. After thorough
> investigation, I think now that the move to make variant a
> fusion sequence is rather quirky. A variant will always
> have a size==1 regardless of the number of types it can contain
> and there's no way to know at compile time what it contains.
> Iterating over its types is simply wrong. All these imply that
> the variant is *not* a fusion sequence.

Sounds right to me.
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com