[Boost-users] [MPL] sequence-preserving

Joel de Guzman writes:

So MPL is not sequence preserving after all.

It really depends what you mean by "sequence preserving." If it returned the same type, it couldn't really do anything. So you have to decide how many guarantees you're going to give about the result type. Andy wants it to be spelled as a specialization of the same template, so transform operating on mpl::vector would yield something spelled mpl::vector.

transform merely returns a sequence with the same properties as the original. This makes perfect sense. In Fusion, algorithms are not sequence preserving by design. However, we do have conversion functions/metafunctions to get a *true* vector/list/set/map from an arbitrary sequence.

No, I don't think that would satisfy Andy, because you're surely not guaranteeing that the result type will be spelled fusion::list or you wouldn't be able to do this to lists of arbitrary length (and why else use a list, after all?). You probably have to conjure up something spelled cons > >, which, while it's a "true list", it isn't a specialization of fusion::list. Which leaves fusion right back in the same place as MPL. Unless I'm missing something, of course ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com