Re: [boost] [Review] Phoenix review starts today, September 21st

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Phoenix review starts today, September 21st
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-22 16:00:16

on Mon Sep 22 2008, "Peter Dimov" <pdimov-AT-pdimov.com> wrote:

> Mathias Gaunard:
>> Loïc Joly wrote:
>>
>> > - How does this library position itself wrt the upcomming C++0x > standard,
>> with native support for lambdas, and standardized support for > function or
>> bind? Is it more expressive?
>>
>> The C++0x standard only specifies monomorphic lambdas at the moment.
>> So Phoenix is indeed more expressive, since all expressions are polymorphic.
>
> Except phoenix::bind, which is monomorphic, for whatever reasons. :-)
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/libs/spirit/phoenix/doc/html/phoenix/composite.html#phoenix.composite.bind

Hmm, that seems like it will needlessly restrict generic code.

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