Re: [boost] How to determine if a function with a given signature is declared?

Subject: Re: [boost] How to determine if a function with a given signature is declared?
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-23 13:41:41

On 5/22/2011 10:15 PM, Gottlob Frege wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Edward Diener<eldiener_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> On 5/18/2011 1:36 AM, Vicente Botet wrote:
>>>
>>> Edward Diener-3 wrote:
>>>
>>> Wow, I missed this point. For example, Boost.Thread make use of some
>>> traits
>>> of this kind. I guess that it should be no too much work to provide the
>>> equivalent for free functions; isn't it?
>>
>> If it can be done it should be a separate library.
>>
>> My library is Type Traits Introspection, meaning it introspects a type.
>>
>
> I would say a function signature is a type.  At least it is once it
> exists.  You can argue about whether a type_exists<Type>::value trait
> makes sense in general.

There is already a library, called function_types, for introspecting a 
function signature.