Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [chrono] v0.4.1 + thread_clock implementation on Windows

----- Original Message ----- From: "joel falcou" To: Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [chrono] v0.4.1 + thread_clock implementation on Windows

vicente.botet wrote:

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What do you mean by a "real MPL arithmetic types " I'm aware of mpl integral constants, but I don't know other that can be used as arithmetic constants. What a re the requirements for these MPL arithmetic types? Could you elaborate?

MPL arithmetic types should model the MPL Integral Constant concepts as specified here:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/mpl/doc/refmanual/integral-constan...

the idea is just to have your rational type being usable like:

boost::mpl::plus::type

instead of using ratio_plus etc...

Joel, arithmetic and integral are not the same thing for me. I don't see how I can make ratio be a model of a MPL Integral constant as ratio is not integral, value_type can not be defined, there is no next, nor prior. Am I missing something? Are you suggesting that I write an specialization of boost::mpl::plus for ratio? Thanks, Vicente