Re: [boost] Road to low-quality-code is paved with good intentions of dropping dependencies

Subject: Re: [boost] Road to low-quality-code is paved with good intentions of dropping dependencies
From: pfultz2 (pfultz2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-07 18:56:06

> Either way, I think that the more important effect of Beman's suggestion is
> not that the trait may pick up the std one's bugs, but that users of the
> trait will no longer be allowed to depend on Boost-specific parts of the
> interface that are not present in the std trait, such as an mpl::bool_
> base
> class. 

Also, `mpl::bool_` more closely matches `std::integral_constant` in C++14
rather than C++11. So it could cause code to break if type traits were
directly swapped out with std traits in C++11.

Paul

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