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Subject: Re: [boost] [mpl] multiset
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-02-24 02:28:04


Le 19/02/15 16:02, Niall Douglas a écrit :
> On 19 Feb 2015 at 15:39, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>
>> Le 13/02/15 18:03, pfultz2 a écrit :
>>>> I believe however that some people were interested in doing a new C++11
>>>> version of MPL. I think the problem is that every year or so someone
>>>> finds a new fancy way to do meta-programming with the latest C++
>>>> features, with noble goals of unifying MPL and Fusion, so most of these
>>>> rewrites end up as experiments rather than stable libraries.
>>> I think Eric Niebler's meta library is good start for a modern MPL library,
>>> and it doesn't try to unify MPL and Fusion.
>>>
>> +1
>>
>> While I appreciate the work on Hana, I believe a pure meta-programming
>> (pure functional) C++11/C++14 library would make things easier.
>>
>> What about enriching the Eric's library on a GSoC project?
> Sufficiently able students are extremely tough to find. Also, Eric's
> Meta is very new, is C++ 14 only, and I assume would internal
> compiler error any MSVC :)
>
> That said if you're willing to mentor such a GSoC Vicente ...
>
>

I would accept mentoring it if the library is restricted to only C++14
compilers (with C++14 libraries).
IMHO, new Boost libraries (and in particular GSoC projects) should jump
on the last train.

Vicente


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