Re: [Boost-users] true typedef (true_typedef) implemented in boost?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] true typedef (true_typedef) implemented in boost?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-17 00:14:01

alfC wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I stumbled upon the concept of true typedef, or strong typedef in
> opposition to usual typedef which are weak.
> http://www.drdobbs.com/184401633,
> there is a true_typedef implemented in stlsoft
> http://www.stlsoft.org/doc-1.9/classstlsoft_1_1true__typedef.html
>
> I was wondering if this is already implemented in some corner of
> Boost, or as a detail implementation.
> If it is really a useful concept (I don't know) then, I though, Boost
> should have it somewhere. And if it doesn't have it then it must mean
> that Boosters come out with something even better. Did they?
>

see BOOST_SERIALIZATION_STRONG_TYPEDEF

Robert Ramey