Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries

Subject: Re: [boost] 5 Observations - My experience with the boost libraries
From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-23 21:56:38

On 03/23/2010 09:47 PM, Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>
> In many cases, I'd rather design a C-style interface that takes
> pointers to incomplete types or even void pointers. Then *maybe* if it
> makes sense I would use meta-programming tricks in the implementation.
>    

I wonder how that goes together. Once you start using "pointers to 
incomplete types" etc., you have given up valuable (type) information, 
which you can not gain back "in the implementation". So what 
meta-programming tricks are there left to play ?

     Stefan

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