Re: [Boost-users] How to get the behavior of make_recursive_variant ?

Peter Bartlett wrote:

Quoting Timothy Madden :

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boost::make_recursive_variant< >::type can serve my purpose well, except that I do not need a variant in my structure, I just need the structure to be recursive. Is there a way to get the recursive-definition behavior of make_recursive_variant<>, without the variant ?

Also I am curios: how is such a recursive definition possible ? How does make_recursive_variant implement it ?

Sounds like a job for boost::recursive_wrapper, which variant uses under the hood.

I would like the possibility to create the type in-place, which make_recursive_variant offers (recursive_wrapper requires a type already declared). Timothy Madden