Re: [boost] New libraries implementing C++11 features in C++03

Subject: Re: [boost] New libraries implementing C++11 features in C++03
From: Nathan Ridge (zeratul976_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-24 23:55:42

> From: thom.heller_at_[hidden]
> On 11/24/2011 10:38 PM, Nathan Ridge wrote:
> > The key word here being "approximation". Boost.Local is an approximation,
> > too, just in a different way. Boost.Local gives you something Phoenix etc.
> > do not (C++ statement syntax), and Phoenix etc. give you something
> > Boost.Local does not (in-line definition in an expression context).
> > Both approximations are useful, and some may prefer one over the other.
>
> That's just plain wrong. In case you missed it:
> http://tinyurl.com/cg72pyy
> and:
> http://tinyurl.com/7ehowv3

Huh? Those are out-of-line, non-local function definitions... 
Am I missing something?

> Besides:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/225989

That's a neat idea, but I'm not sure how it's relevant to this discussion.
Those who are objecting to Boost.Local are not objecting on the basis that
the generated function object is not a Phoenix function...

Regards,
Nate