Re: [Boost-users] [boost] TTI library updated in the sandbox

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] TTI library updated in the sandbox
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-07 04:24:15

> I hope you know that there is no attempt being made to create the 
> TTI_HAS_TYPE and TTI_HAS_TEMPLATE metafunction macros without 
> acknowledging that I am just lifting this from the MPL library. It is in 
> the description when I post on this NG and it is in the documentation in 
> the Acknowledgments section. I would be glad to put it anywhere else. At 
> the same time I can remove it easily enough from the TTI library but I 
> think in that case it would be less complete as a compile-time 
> introspection library if I did.

Personally I think they should be there for completeness, but, for 
maintenance reasons it might be nice to have *just one actual 
implementation* in Boost, so that either the MPL or type_traits versions are 
just forwarding macros to the other (hope that makes sense).

John.