Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version

Subject: Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-19 11:26:41

>> I am seeing that the type_traits macro
>> BOOST_TT_AUX_TEMPLATE_ARITY_SPEC(i, name), which is in
>> type_traits/detail/template_arity_spec.hpp, is used extensively in
>> function_types and also in a few other libraries.
>
> Wasn't this macro a VC6 workaround?
>
> As a first step we could just add an empty macro and see if anything
> today actually needs it.

That's what I was planning, these macros are all basically superfluous now.

John.