Re: [Boost-users] [Parameter] Constructors and more

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-07 14:29:10

Daniel Wallin <dalwan01_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Johan Nilsson" <r.johan.nilsson_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> I personally very rarely use constant/reference class members, but
>>> understand your concerns. Perhaps a BOOST_PARAMETER_RESTRICTED_CTOR
>>> (or similarly ugly-named) macro could be included in the library?
>> 
>> I don't think there's a real need to uglify.  Usually ctors are pretty
>> simple anyway; I think this macro should just generate the ctor
>> overloads directly instead of doing any forwarding.  Daniel, what do
>> you think about that?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting. Right now we have the
> new macro system that has constructors that forward to a base class.
> What are you suggesting that differs from that?

Using the macros to generate a family of ctors that replicate the same
base/member initializer list and function body, so no base class is needed.

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Dave Abrahams
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