Re: [boost] [TypeErasure]_self

Subject: Re: [boost] [TypeErasure]_self
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-22 23:50:25

AMDG

On 07/22/2012 08:27 AM, Markus Werle wrote:
> In 
> [docs]/type_erasure/libs/type_erasure/doc/html/boost_typeerasure/feedback.html 
> you ask for feedback:
> 
> I would be perfectly happy with _ instead of _self. 
> You would be in sync with the folks that wrote C# Reactive Extensions 
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/gg577611)
> who have the convention that _ stands for "unused", which it is here, too.
> 

Except that it doesn't mean "unused."
It's the default, but otherwise it's
exactly the same as any other placeholder.

> To me 
>  constructible<_(const std::string&)> 
> reads fine.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe