[Boost-users] TTI library in the Boost sandbox

Subject: [Boost-users] TTI library in the Boost sandbox
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-16 11:45:07

I have uploaded to the Boost sandbox 'tti' directory version 1.0 of the 
TTI library. The TTI library, which is an abbreviation for the Type 
Traits Introspection library, allows a programmer to introspect at 
compile time the inner elements of a C++ type. The introspection process 
depends on specifying the name of the inner element by different macros 
for different types of elements, and then using a generated metafunction 
to determine whether that element exists within the enclosing type. The 
inner elements which can be introspected are type, class template, 
member data, member function, static member data, and static member 
function.

The TTI library is based on the type_traits_ext portion of the Concept 
Traits Library, with improvements and additions, and also lifts 
functionality, for the purposes of orthogonality, from Boost.MPL 
regarding introspection of types and templates.

The purpose of the library is to provide a consistent set of interfaces 
for doing compile-time introspection which other template 
metaprogrammers can use in their code.

There is a readme.txt in the top-level sandbox tti directory, for anyone 
browsing the sandbox for interesting libraries, which replicates what is 
written here.

There is a build.txt file in the doc subdirectory for building the 
documentation and running the tests. The documentation is also included 
as part of the sandbox files for those who can not build the docs.

There is a list of todo items in the sandbox on which I will be working 
for the next release, but the library is already feature rich.

The library has been tested and works with gcc 4.30, 4.4.0, 4.5.0-1, 
4.5.2, and VC++ 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0. It may also work with other 
compilers. There is a bug in versions of gcc prior to version 4 for 
which I will attempt to find a workaround if it is deemed important, 
which prevents it from working with the library.

Questions, comments, suggestions, and bug reports are all welcome.