Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.TypeTraits] Adding specialisations

From: Kirit Sælensminde (kirit.saelensminde_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-03 23:25:10

Tobias Schwinger wrote:
> Kirit Sælensminde wrote:
>> John Maddock wrote:
>>> Kirit Sælensminde wrote:
>>>> I think I have a misunderstanding of what the boost::function_traits
>>>> is doing. From your explanation it seems that boost::function_traits
>>>> is there to examine only function signatures where a function type is
>>>> of the form R( A1, A2, etc. ),
>>> Correct.
>> What is the reason for the restriction?
> 
> Well theoretically we could have a 'remove_member_pointer' as well. 
> Unfortunately it's not easily implementable without running into a lot 
> of compiler-specific trouble.
> 
> The Boost CVS/SVN contains a library that is dedicated to deal with this 
> trouble. See
> 
>      $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs/function_types/docs/html/index.html
> 
> it should contain easily readable traits for all the use cases you 
> mentioned in this thread.

Thanks Tobias, I'll grab that from SVN and take a look. Is this slated 
to be part of 1.35?

K