Re: [boost] Peer Review Report for proposed Boost.TypeIndex v2.1 Nov 12th – 21st 2013

Subject: Re: [boost] Peer Review Report for proposed Boost.TypeIndex v2.1 Nov 12th – 21st 2013
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-25 02:15:49

On 25/11/2013 18:51, Quoth Niall Douglas:
>> I'm fairly sure what Niall was proposing was a copyable object -- ie.
>> basically the same semantics as the current proposed boost::type_index
>> but storing data directly within rather than via indirection to
>> boost::type_info, which would no longer exist.
>
> Exactly right. Only thing missing is that I would have
> boost::type_index have sizeof=0 i.e. pure static data only.

I don't see how you can do that without making it a template, which 
would render it useless.  But I'm willing to be enlightened. ;)