Re: [boost] The Lonely Song of the MPL Maintainer -- or Boost support for antediluvian compiler and the future supprot of C++11

Gordon Woodhull <gordon@woodhull.com> writes:

On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:21 PM, "Hartmut Kaiser" <hartmut.kaiser@gmail.com> wrote:

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so why not leave the existing MPL alone and start over?

Is there any reason a variadic MPL would have a different interface?

Yep. There are plenty of cases in MPL where variadic interfaces would be useful, sequence construction being a primary one. It is a royal pain to convert a C++11 variadic type list into an MPL vector, for example. -Dave