Re: [Boost-users] [MPL] no invoke<T>?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [MPL] no invoke<T>?
From: Noah Roberts (roberts.noah_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-04-01 14:04:27

On 4/1/2011 9:28 AM, Krzysztof Czainski wrote:
> 2011/4/1 Noah Roberts <roberts.noah_at_[hidden]
> <mailto:roberts.noah_at_[hidden]>>
>
>     I had to write an invoke metafunction because I couldn't seem to
>     find one that looked like it was what I needed:
>
>     template < typename MF > struct invoke { typedef typename MF::type
>     type; };
>
>     I've looked through the documentation TOC:
>     http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/mpl/doc/refmanual/refmanual_toc.html
>
>     Is there something I'm missing?
>
>
> How do you intend to use invoke?
>
> The way I understand it, invoke<MF> would be equivalent to MF itself.

No, it would be the 'type' definition inside of MF.