Re: [boost] Yap's formal review is starting now!

Subject: Re: [boost] Yap's formal review is starting now!
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-16 01:10:09

AMDG

On 02/15/2018 05:55 PM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> <snip>
> It's also true that for any nontrivial manipulation you'd need tuple
> algorithms, which std::tuple doesn't have, as your get_arity example
> demonstrates. And yet, tying to Hana doesn't feel right.
> 

  What's the point of making libraries if you
refuse to use them?

> I'm thinking about properly completing the "tuple" part of mp11 with all
> the algorithms that make sense, starting with `transform`, but I doubt
> I'll have time for that in any near future.
> 

  So, you're going to re-implement those parts of hana,
just so that everyone has two libraries to avoid (because
dependencies are so terrible).

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe