Re: [boost] [Review] Type Traits Extension ending tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] [Review] Type Traits Extension ending tomorrow
From: Christopher Jefferson (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-17 09:06:10

A short review.

I used the library on Mac OS X in both clang and g++. The code appears to work fine after one small bug/confusion was fixed.

The library is generally complete and functions well.

My one request would be for an example or two!

I wrote (for my own uses) a "maybe_print" function, which prints a value if the appropriate operator<< ostream overload exists, else prints "<NOT PRINTABLE>". I think a small example like this would show a practical use of the library, and how to make use of enable_if, or some other overload method.

I believe the library should be accepted.

On 17 Mar 2011, at 06:11, Joel Falcou wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> The fast track review of Frédéric Bron's extensions to the Type Traits Library is ending tomorrow.
> If you plan to submit a review, please do so as soon as possible.
> 
> Thanks in advance to all participants of the review.
> 
> 
> 
> ===========
> What is it?
> ===========
> 
> 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.
> 
> ===================
> Getting the library
> ===================
> 
> 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& 
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