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Subject: Re: [boost] Is there BOOST_ENABLE_IF macro now?
From: paul Fultz (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-19 21:11:30


>> Besides being slightly more verbose, this only works in C++11. >> > > Your example is also C++11, since it uses variadic macros. > Although C++11 includes variadic macros, C++11 is not required to use variadic macros. Any compiler in the last 8 to 10 years supports some form of variadic macros. > The macro can be changed to just automatically > wrap everything in and_ and it will get the functionality you are looking > for, I just don't think it's necessary, and as I'm sure Mathias > would point > out, it adds an extra instantiation if there is only one condition (as is > frequently the case). > Yes it does add quite bit of extra instantiations, since it relies on folding over an mpl sequence. In C++11, I could do the fold over a variadic template. This should reduce it down to 1 or 2 extra instantiations, for just a single trait. > > Again, you can already do all of this via and_ and not_. I'm probably the > last person to be afraid of preprocessor metaprogramming, but making a > little preprocessor EDSL just for "and" and "not" seems like > overkill to > me, especially for something like enable_if. It isn't just a EDSL for 'and' and 'not'. It helps improves the clutter caused by enable_if, especially for function declarations. > Your macro also is more > complicated than that, since you now need to account for commas in > individual conditions as well. >   The macro isn't that complicated, its under 200 lines of code for all three variants of the macro. >> I was referring to the ConceptsLite proposal. > > > I'm not going to open up this can of worms in this thread, but I am not a > fan of that proposal in the least. > The proposal seems to be just native support of enable_if. Which lets the compiler do better overload matching, and error reporting. It really has nothing to do with concepts. Paul Fultz II


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