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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] TTI library updated in the sandbox
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-07 10:05:21

On 2/7/2011 4:24 AM, John Maddock wrote:
>> 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).

That makes perfect sense. In the case of my library I am not 
implementing anything, just using directly the version in MPL. I am fine 
with the MPL being the code implementation.