Re: [Boost-users] Need boost's help with poor design

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-26 10:53:12

AMDG

Robert Dailey wrote:
> I love the logic presented here. boost::variant has always been 
> confusing to me, but I took the time just now to read over the 
> documentation for it a few times and I get it now. However, the issue 
> still remains in how to organize all of my signals. In your example 
> you have all of the signals manually typed out into separate 
> variables, whereas I would rather have them in some sort of container, 
> such as a map.

How about this:

typedef boost::mpl::vector<WalkPacket, ChatPacket, QuestPacket> 
packet_types;
typedef boost::mpl::transform<boost::signal1<void, _> >::type signals;
typedef boost::mpl::inherit_linearly<signals, static_visitor<>, 
mpl::inherit<_, _> >::type SignalVisitor;

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe