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: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-15 15:26:10

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:56 AM, David A. Greene <greened_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> 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.
>

Sorry for the ignorance, but it isn't as simple as boost::mpl::vector< T...
> ?  Or does that indeed qualify as a "royal pain" ?

- Jeff