Re: [boost] The Lonely Song of the MPL Maintainer -- or Boost support for antediluvian compiler and the future supprot of C++11

Subject: Re: [boost] The Lonely Song of the MPL Maintainer -- or Boost support for antediluvian compiler and the future supprot of C++11
From: David A. Greene (greened_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-15 14:56:29

Gordon Woodhull <gordon_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:21 PM, "Hartmut Kaiser" <hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> so why not leave the existing MPL
>> alone and start over?
>
> Is there any reason a variadic MPL would have a different interface? 

Yep.  There are plenty of cases in MPL where variadic interfaces would
be useful, sequence construction being a primary one.  It is a royal
pain to convert a C++11 variadic type list into an MPL vector, for
example.

                             -Dave