Re: [Boost-users] Using boost (maybe mpl?) to generalize a switch statement to call different template functions

From: Nat Goodspeed (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-02 15:55:32

Jeff Flinn wrote:
> Nat Goodspeed wrote:
>> I believe this is essentially a double-dispatch problem, though you're 
>> using enum values rather than distinct subclass types. Scott Meyers 
>> talks about double dispatch (in More Effective C++? I don't have it with 
>> me). At that point he was advocating a map of target functions, keyed by 
>> type pairs.
> 
> I think that was "Modern C++ Design" by Alexandrescu.

He talks about it too. :-)