Re: [boost] Single letter template type causes errors in compile of program_options and filesystem boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] Single letter template type causes errors in compile of program_options and filesystem boost libraries
From: John Phillips (phillips_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-18 18:02:58

OvermindDL1 wrote:

> 
> And here is the Boost.MPL page of exactly that kind of example; it
> would give them their self-documentation, as well as being typesafe,
> as well as helping to make sure the programmer cannot screw up and
> start multiplying things together that they should not do and so forth
> (would throw a compile error, you know, instead of their internal
> logic silently breaking down):
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/mpl/doc/tutorial/dimensional-analysis.html

   If he wants to include units, he could avoid writing his own using 
MPL, and instead use the already existing boost units library.

                        John