Re: [boost] [config] explicit call of operator templates / msvc bug workaround

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] explicit call of operator templates / msvc bug workaround
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-29 17:01:15

At Sat, 29 May 2010 13:51:55 -0700,
Steven Watanabe wrote:
> 
> > I could, but the functor is a visitor that is provided by the user of 
> > this class, while the call of the operator is an implementation 
> > detail. so I'd rather use a compiler bug workaround for the call than 
> > complicate the visitor interface.
> > operator(): because it's a functor.
> 
> It isn't a functor if you need explicit template arguments.

Well, let's not pick nits over what one should consider a functor,
because nobody's ever defined it well for C++, and there's a good
argument that C++ has totally abused a term of art from elsewhere
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor).

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