Re: [Boost-users] [proto] extended expressions and assignment operator

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [proto] extended expressions and assignment operator
From: Sebastian Mach (phresnel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-24 15:14:56

2009/8/13 Maurizio Vitale
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>
> Hi Eric,
>
>  I'm trying to have proto allow me to do things like:
>
> (a,b,c) = expr;
>
> where a, b, c are integers of different width and they should be
> assigned the appropriate slice of expr.
>

if in ...

(a,b,c) = expr;

... a,b,c are of unproxied builtin type, then it might not be possible in
C++, as you can not overload operators (in this case 'operator,(lhs,rhs)')
upon builtin types only.