Re: [boost] Request for endorsements for mp11

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for endorsements for mp11
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-05-22 14:56:28

Robert Ramey wrote:

> And then there is Hana.

There'll always be Hana, I suppose.

mp11 is not quite a competitor to Hana. True, they both do metaprogramming. 
But mp11 is rather a replacement for the myriads of hand-rolled type-based 
metaprogramming primitives scattered all over people's code; it's like a 
collection of these same primitives, but done coherently and with an unified 
naming convention. (And with, I suppose, proper-ish documentation and a test 
suite.)

It pains me each time I see the same mp_wheel being reinvented, and each 
time the standard library acquires an ad-hoc, arbitrarily named, 
metaprogramming primitive. This has to end.