Re: [boost] Call for interest - BOOST_AUTO_FUNCTION

Subject: Re: [boost] Call for interest - BOOST_AUTO_FUNCTION
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-05 15:57:52

At Tue, 5 Oct 2010 15:20:22 -0400,
Matt Calabrese wrote:
> 
> I find this type of functionality to be very useful, particularly in
> libraries. In fact, I find myself using it for just about all 1-line
> function templates. Do others agree that this would be a worthwhile addition
> to boost? Documentation should be quick to write up. The macro would of
> course be renamed to something along the lines of BOOST_AUTO_FUNCTION
> 
> If anyone thinks multi_cast would be useful, let me know and I'll also spin
> off a separate thread for that, though I'm tempted to think it's more of a
> curiosity than something that would get much use.

I always imagined I'd want something like that when I started using
C++0x in anger.

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Dave Abrahams
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