Re: [Boost-users] how are the iterative/looping mechanism implemented in boost preprocessor?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] how are the iterative/looping mechanism implemented in boost preprocessor?
From: Michael Caisse (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-24 18:11:13

On 05/24/2011 02:20 PM, R A wrote:
> at first i thought that the boost library came with it's own 
> implementation of a c preprocessor, as i thought that was the only way 
> it could be doing all that iteration (multiple "patterned" 
> declarations, etc, etc) and the c standard hasn't introduced a notion 
> of counters... i've considered concatenation, but that incurs a 
> "final" string to be compared which cannot be generated automatically 
> a priori (correct me if i'm mistaken). but when i looked at boost 
> thoroughly, it seems to be doing everything in standard. so can 
> anybody tell me how that is done?
>

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>
> i know this may sound trivial and totally beginner-like, but can 
> anyone explain it to me, as i don't have the whole day just trying to 
> decipher everything out.

A little time with the Boost.Preprocessor library documentation should 
get you going.

<http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/preprocessor/doc/index.html>

-- 
Michael Caisse
Object Modeling Designs
www.objectmodelingdesigns.com