Re: [boost] [TypeTraits] is it possible to add something to boost.type_traits?

Subject: Re: [boost] [TypeTraits] is it possible to add something to boost.type_traits?
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-17 10:34:05

Frédéric Bron wrote:
>>>> It would really be nice to have type_traits for all the possible
>>>> user-defined operators.
>> The operators which can be user-defined as specified in the C++ standard.
>> These are given in 13.5 1, as:
>>
>> new delete new[] delete[]
>> + - * / % ˆ & | ˜
>> ! = < > += -= *= /= %=
>> ˆ= &= |= << >> >>= <<= == !=
>> <= >= && || ++ -- , ->* ->
>> () []
> 
> I will stick to binary operators. Thus I leave the others to somebody
> else because I have been  working on it for quite a long time now and
> would really like to see it in boost soon. Each time a feature is
> added, it takes very long to make everybody agree on the details which
> is very good because the resulting code is very high quality then.
> Also I have not enough time at the moment (and probably up to March
> 2010) as I am working on a large time consuming musical score project.
> Therefore if you want to start some work on unary operators, please
> feel free to do it.

OK, thanks ! I will look at is_incrementable in boost::detail to see if 
I can understand it. The technique used there should theoretically scale 
to the other unary operators.