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Subject: Re: [boost] arithmetic meta functions and traits
From: joel falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-06 03:28:10


Zachary Turner wrote:
> Is there any use for something like this? Following compiles on MSVC 9.0.
> Despite the simplicity of the final template, it was *NOT* easy to get this
> working given that there's about 10 ways you should be able to do this
> according to the standard, but poor SFINAE support makes it next to
> impossible to get your compiler to accept anything. Since it doesn't do
> anything highly fancy, I would wager it works on GCC and other compilers as
> well, although it needs to be tested.
>
I think there is already something like this proposed as an extension to
type_traits and use sizeof tricks to do that.

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