Re: [boost] TTI library updated in the sandbox to version 1.4

Subject: Re: [boost] TTI library updated in the sandbox to version 1.4
From: Gordon Woodhull (gordon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-24 23:03:26

On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:10 PM, Edward Diener wrote:

> I will be doing that. Unfortunately except for you and John Maddock no one else has ever expressed an interest in TTI. Maybe that sort of metaprogramming is only of interest to other metaprogrammers and not normal end-users. Which of course does not bode well for a review even though the library is quite good in the creator's opinion.

Introspection is a sorely missing feature in C++.  

I bet you will get a good few reviews.  Seems like a library mostly for library writers, but everyone should be a library writer.  ;-)  

I think you will face the typical "meta-" barrier where people are not yet used to using template metaprogramming, but you'll get plenty of users over time.

If C++ ever integrates metaprogramming better into the language (syntax and internals), libraries like this will motivate that change.

Cheers,
Gordon