Re: [boost] [modularization] Removing iterator->conversion dependency

Subject: Re: [boost] [modularization] Removing iterator->conversion dependency
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-06 04:18:15

On Friday 06 June 2014 01:39:24 Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
> 
> in order to remove the dependency from iterator to conversion I suggest
> to move |boost/implicit_cast.hpp to MPL.
> 
> |Vicente
> 
> /conversion/ <http://www.pdimov.com/tmp/report-6d1f271/conversion.html>
> 
>       |<boost/implicit_cast.hpp>|
> 
>   * from |<boost/pending/iterator_tests.hpp>|
> 
>       |//boost/implicit_cast.hpp|
> |
> |template <typename T>
> 
> inline T implicit_cast (typename mpl::identity<T>::type x) {
>      return x;
> }

I would suggest moving it to Core and modifying to not depend on MPL (i.e. 
reimplementing mpl::identity).