Boost logo

Boost :

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


Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk