Re: [boost] Identification library preliminary version

From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-17 12:41:10

joel falcou wrote:

> It's the current implementation of my type debugging facility that
> provides a simple function and class to build at run-time a human readable
> string containing the name of its type arguments. Identification supports
> a simple way to register user-defined types into itself.

Why at runtime?
Mangling/Unmangling a compile-time string at compile-time is perfectly
doable and would be fairly useful, since it would allow constant-time
visitation over std::type_info&.