Re: [boost] Type traits extension & Bitfield reviews

Subject: Re: [boost] Type traits extension & Bitfield reviews
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-12 10:09:07

On 11/6/2010 9:28 AM, joel falcou wrote:
> On 06/11/10 14:08, Frédéric Bron wrote:
>> Yep, I may restart working on that!
>> Thanks for pushing.
>
> We may want to synchronize at some point. I have been developing a macro
> to geenrating such traits check for
> arbitrary member or free function. Maybe it could be agglomerated.
> Anyway, I'm really want them to be in ;) hence my
> itnerest into reviewing that instead of whining about lack of review
> manager :p

I have also been working on a type traits introspection library but it 
is not documented yet. I did get your files from you that are the 
"introspection.zip" in the Boost vault, which I have studied but I 
prefer the technique in the CTL which is a bit more flexible barring a 
VC++ ( and gcc prior to 4.0 ) bug on which I am working on a workaround.

I also have looked at Frederick Bron's code in 'is_comparable.hpp'. It 
seems that should be fairly easily extended to other operators, although 
I may not understand all the issues involved.

My type traits introspection library is only interested in introspecting 
a type at compile time and is not interested in free functions. Nor does 
it touch on the operators work done by Frederick Bron, so I feel that 
should go forward on its own. Nonetheless I want to synchronize my 
efforts with others who are working in this area, probably offline.

Eddie Diener