10 Jan
2008
10 Jan
'08
9:43 p.m.
On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Michael Fawcett wrote:
My questions are - when creating your own library, when do you choose nested typedefs over a traits class,
Never.
and what effects does it have on a library user, both from a usability and extensibility point of view. What questions do you ask yourself to come to a decision?
Traits classes are far better than nested typedefs, because one can always specialize a traits class for an existing type---even if you can't modify the type because it is built-in or comes from another library that you can't modify. - Doug