Re: [boost] Is there any interest in type-safe container of bool flags with noexcept guarantees?

Subject: Re: [boost] Is there any interest in type-safe container of bool flags with noexcept guarantees?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-22 23:01:32

On 03/23/17 01:54, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> I have an ordinal_set<Ordinal> that is type safe.
> An enum as the previous one canbe see as an Ordinal and so
>
>     enum animal_traits
>     {
>       eats_meat, eats_grass, has_tail, _count
>     };
>     using animal_traits_set = ordinal_set<animal_traits>

Is the ordinal_set part of Boost? Where can I see it?

Also, how do you deduce the number of bits from the enum type?

>>   typedef typed_bitset< animal_traits, animal_traits::_count > animal;
>>
>>   animal a1; // all traits are false
>>   a1[eats_grass] = 1;
>>   a1[has_tail] = 1;
>>   a1[10] = 1; // error
>>
>> I suspect it would also be faster to compile.
> compile time for ordinal sets would suffer a little bit as we need to
> associate at compile time each enumerator to its position (this could be
> provided by reflection or by user defined ordinal traits).

Ah, so one would also have to specialize traits for the enum?