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

Subject: Re: [boost] [type_traits] Rewrite and dependency free version
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-01-19 12:49:56

On 1/19/2015 11:26 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>>> 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.

I am seeing in MPL empty_base.hpp:

#include <boost/type_traits/detail/bool_trait_def.hpp>

but this file does not exist in type_traits Version2.