10 Feb
2012
10 Feb
'12
1:57 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
On 02/10/2012 02:19 PM, Christof Donat wrote:
Is there any interest in here to look into what we could learn from their design?
Their design follows a fairly common opinion in the C/C++ world: templates suck, prefer writing compiler plugins or custom preprocessors instead.
Actually, AFAIK, a lot of their base design dates early C++-98 times, when many compilers they supported did not yet support well some C++ features. So to be as portable as possible, they had to resolve to this kind of approach. And I think this is also a common misconception in the C++ world: many think still in terms of such old times and never updated to today. -- François Duranleau