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

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] explicit call of operator templates / msvc bug workaround
From: Stefan Strasser (strasser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-30 04:06:36

if the Boost.Config maintainer wants BOOST_NESTED_OPERATOR_TEMPLATE to  
be part of Boost.Config, let me know.
I can provide a patch for config code, documentation and pass/fail  
tests, but I'm not very familiar with the boost test/build system, so  
you'd have to add it there.

Stefan

Zitat von David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>:

> 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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