Re: [Boost-users] [fusion?] [Phoenix?] Calling arbitrary method with collection of args

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [fusion?] [Phoenix?] Calling arbitrary method with collection of args
From: Kim Kuen Tang (kuentang_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-19 03:51:02

Hi Nat,

You can use push_back from phoenix to fill in your data type. See
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/spirit/phoenix/doc/html/phoenix/container.html

Perhaps you can show us your data type  so we can go into detail.

Cheers,
Kim

Nat Goodspeed schrieb:
> We have a data type equivalent to a recursive variant that can hold a 
> few scalar types or a vector of such types.
>
> My colleague proposes that we build a template function that will 
> accept a free function or class method (that is, any callable whose 
> signature we can infer) plus a vector of the variant type. For each 
> formal parameter type in the callable's signature, this function would 
> ensure that the vector is long enough to fill it, and then that the 
> runtime type of the appropriate vector entry is compatible with the 
> static type of the parameter. Finally it would call the callable, 
> filling the formal parameters from the variant vector.
>
> I strongly suspect that this function already exists in Boost. I 
> simply don't know which library to research. (OvermindDL1?)
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