Re: [boost] [xint] Fourth release, requesting preliminary review again

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Fourth release, requesting preliminary review again
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-02 18:09:38

At Thu, 3 Jun 2010 00:53:23 +0300,
Marius Stoica wrote:
> 
> > Would that make the documentation easier to read? I don't see any other
> > benefit to using it here; there are only three optional parameters, and
> > two of them have the same type (bool) so they couldn't benefit from
> > Boost.Parameter's automatic deduction.
> > 
> 
> Why not ? As the parameter docs points out having two bool parameters can get 
> confusing. And i don't like having to specify the allocator every time .
> Of course is't just some syntactic sugar.

bools are the easiest type in the world to eliminate the “same type”
problem with.  Just use enums.  Then deduced template arguments become
beautiful.

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