[boost] [Review] Boost.Type Traits Extension by Frederic Bron

Subject: [boost] [Review] Boost.Type Traits Extension by Frederic Bron
From: Joel Falcou (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-09 01:19:54

Dear All,

According to the Boost Formal Review Schedule [1],
fast track review of Frédéric Bron's extensions to the Type Traits Library starts
on March 14th and lasts until March 18th, 2011 under my management.

[1]http://www.boost.org/community/review_schedule.html

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What is it?
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This extension adds 37 new traits corresponding to the following 37 operators:
- binary: ==, !=,<,<=,>,>=, , +, -, *, /, %, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, ,
&&, ||, ,&, |, ^,<<,>>,&=, |=, ^=,<<=,>>=
- prefix: ++, --, +, -, !, ~, *
- postfix: ++, --

Each trait can detect if the operator can be used with particular
types and if needed, if the return type is convertible to some type.

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Getting the library
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The latest version can be downloaded by different ways:
- from the vault with unix line ending:
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=type_traits.tar.bz2&directory=Extension&
- from the vault with dos line ending:
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=type_traits-dos.tar.bz2&directory=Extension&
- from the sandbox:http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/type_traits/

The entry point of the documentation is
type_traits/libs/type_traits/doc/html/boost_typetraits/category/value_traits/operators.html

The library has been tested with:
- MSVC 8, 9, 10 on Windows,
- g++ 4.4.5 on Linux,
- intel 10.0 and 11.1 on Linux.

To test the library, the simplest is to untar the headers in your
boost include directory. For this, you can download the header part of
the extension:
- from the vault with unix line ending:
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=type_traits.headers_only.tar.bz2&directory=Extension&
- from the vault with dos line ending:
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=type_traits.headers_only-dos.tar.bz2&directory=Extension&