Re: [boost] traits classes vs. metafunctions

Subject: Re: [boost] traits classes vs. metafunctions
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-31 10:36:49

on Sat Mar 30 2013, Nathan Ridge <zeratul976-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:

>> > why did c++11 choose traits classes over metafunctions, even though
>> > the concept of a metafunction was introduced in c++11 (<type_traits>).
>>
>> ...
>>
>> P.S. Have you seen what they did with enable_if?
>
> Do you mean that the standard version takes the condition as a boolean
> parameter rather than a type parameter? If so, that actually seems
> more natural to me.

More natural in some subjective sense but but less interoperable.  Oh well.

-- 
Dave Abrahams