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: Gordon Woodhull (gordon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-15 20:50:14

On Aug 15, 2011, at 2:56 PM, greened_at_[hidden] (David A. Greene) wrote:

>> 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.

Well that seems like just a compiler bug. I was wondering how else we could expect C++11 to improve the interface of MPL, beyond sequence <-> variadic conversions. But I can be patient and see it when it's ready. :-)

Cheers,
Gordon