Darren Garvey wrote:
2008/6/23 David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>:
It's a pity the mpl macros are so hard to find though. It'd be nice if they were documented directly in the static assert docs.
This is the key issue. For lots of people, the introduction to generic programming is through STATIC_ASSERT. This one facility is very useful and easy to use and understand. Any C++ programmer - even a newbie, can grasp the utility of this facility within minutes. MPL, though very powerful and useful, takes a significant amount of investment of effort to understand. Actually, I wouldn't expect that anyone in need of such a facility such as STATIC_ASSERT would even look there unless he happened to be already familiar with it. A good solution would be to factor out the MPL ASSERTS code and documentation into a separate library (boost/utility/static_assert?). I don't know if the MPL_ASSERTS work with compile time constants or just with types. If its the latter, then BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT would be in that same page. Since this would mostly be moving around a bunch of stuff that is already done, I would hope that its not a huge amount of work. Of course that would be my perception as I wouldn't be the one doing it. Oh, and while we're at it, may we can include BOOST_STATIC_WARNING in here as well? Robert Ramey