Re: [boost] Enums: naming question?

Subject: Re: [boost] Enums: naming question?
From: Vicente BOTET (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-21 13:49:28

> Message du 21/03/11 16:32
> De : "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr." 
> Robert Stewart brought up a good point on the redundancy of the "_type"
> suffix, so although the above alternatives to your current metafunction
> names are longer, that will be mostly mitigated by removing the redundant
> "_type" suffix. However, we do have free function analogues of these
> metafunctions, correct? Maybe you can put the metafunctions in a result_of
> namespace, as Boost.Fusion does?
> 
> [I'm hoping the angle brackets get preserved...]

Me too. Lately I was using the Nabble web interface. I have no had any problems in the past, but it seems not be the case now. 

> namespace result_of{
> template< class E > struct native_enum;
> template< class E > struct underlying_integer;
> template< class E > struct scoped_enum;
> } // namespace result_of
> template< class E >
> typename result_of::native_enum::type
> native_enum(const E e);
> // etc.

I like the result_of trick. What I don't like too much is underlying_integer :(

Best,
Vicente