Re: [boost] [yap] Review part 1: documentation

Subject: Re: [boost] [yap] Review part 1: documentation
From: Zach Laine (whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-13 20:29:06

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:10 PM, Zach Laine <whatwasthataddress_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 1:30 PM, Steven Watanabe via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>

[snip]

>   Actually, the code I posted fails to compile (even after
>> fixing the obvious typos) because the recursion makes
>> it impossible for auto to deduce the return type.
>
>
> Right, and although this saves the user from runtime infinite recursion,
> it is a very obscure failure mode.  This more than outweighs the
> convenience of the current interface.  I'm convinced the auto-evaluating,
> and in fact all terminal unwrapping in tag-transforms, should be removed.
>

Actually, I take this back, at least partially -- I think auto-unwrapping
in some form might still be useful without auto-applying the transform.
I'll need to experiment with that a bit. *TODO*

Zach