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Subject: Re: [boost] Formal Review Request: TypeErasure
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-06-17 13:55:01


On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Julien Nitard <julien.nitard_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Hi Steven,
>
> Here are a few questions and suggestions:
>
[...]

> - _self and the placeholders have their underscore at the beginning
> while typeid_ has its own at the end. I guess this may be uniformized.
>

AFAIK, Boost has adopted the convention that placeholders (whatever that
means in a given context) have a leading underscore while library
identifiers use a trailing underscore if they would otherwise have the same
name as a standard C++ identifier.

- Jeff


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