Re: [Boost-users] [mpl] newbie question

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-25 07:17:44

Andy Little wrote:

> An alternative suggestion is to explicitly specify what seems to be
> the actual behaviour of arithmetic operations on int_'s, long's etc
> in the documentation. The actual behaviour seems to be that these
> functions invariably return an integral_c. It could then also be
> specified that the value_type of the result is found by applying the
> usual promotion rules to the types of each of the (non mpl::na)
> arguments. That would at least tighten up any play in the current
> specification.

Isn't this what the docs already seem to say?

http://www.boost.org/libs/mpl/doc/refmanual/plus.html