Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [type_erasure] Review started (July 18-27, 2012)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [type_erasure] Review started (July 18-27, 2012)
From: Sergey Mitsyn (svm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-04 11:53:22

>>
>> The library can't handle this without
>> special knowledge of std::pair.  This
>> would mean creating some kind of extension
>> point, which I'm not willing to do at this point.
>
> Why is that? AFAIK it's rather easy to determine class template and
> template arguments from its instantiation - by passing it to specialized
> class template. The "recursive" argument rebinding comes out naturally.
>
> Is there another problem?

Ok, probably I got it. Library needs to pass anys as void*, and it's 
impossible to say how to convert arbitrary C<void*> to C<any<...>>.

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