Re: [boost] Checking interest in std::get for PODs

Subject: Re: [boost] Checking interest in std::get for PODs
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-06-04 16:23:23

Le 04/06/2016 à 20:06, Antony Polukhin a écrit :
> 2016-06-04 16:58 GMT+03:00 Bjorn Reese <breese_at_[hidden]>:
>
>> On 06/03/2016 08:27 AM, Antony Polukhin wrote:
>>
>> There's a C++14 library that is able to do basic reflections for PODs
>>> without any macro magic or markup: https://github.com/apolukhin/magic_get
>>>
>> Could the "Enums will be returned as their underlying type" limitation
>> be partially worked around by allowing users to register their own
>> enums?
>>
> Yes, that's possible. But I was trying to avoid that functionality. If
> users will be able to register their own types, then the library will
> become just one of many libraries where you have to manually describe your
> structures using macros/traits.
>
I don't see any problem in registering a type using traits. Or using the 
macro used by the library itself.

Types that are not registered cannot be found. This is the same that we 
have for Boost.TypeOf.

Vicente