Thanks for your advise about avoiding the call_traits library. I finaly based my code on the type_traits library even if the param_type from call_traits is quite a usefull type. If call_traits was deprecated putting a param_type in type_traits sounds to me like a good idear. About the doc I also had the feeling of an incomplete one for type_traits for 2 reasons. add_const<add_reference> do not lead to the same type as add_reference<add_const>, even if I agree with this behavior, a little note about it in the doc would be great. Second is about the compiler support of the type_traits feature. Isn't there yet any compiler able to give info about the compiled types? But of course it might appear as a commercial information so it is only a suggestion. Just for you to know my major insterest in boost is not in its type_traits library but in the move semantic lib. How is it going? For the coming STLport version I have added a very simple move constructor framework. It is not documented as I don't think that STLport is the right place for this kind of library. As soon as the next STLport version is released I will have a closer look on the boost move semantic lib. Francois Dumont
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 16:55:50 -0400 From: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> Subject: [boost] Re: Fw: STLport & boost To: boost@lists.boost.org Message-ID: <uzn6erx61.fsf@boost-consulting.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
François Dumont <francois.cppdevs@free.fr> writes:
Hello
I am currently actively contributing to STLport. One of my contribution is to make boost and STLport closer. I think STLport can gain a lot in using some of the boost libraries and then boost will be able to count on a robust std lib.
This sounds really cool, BTW.
For the moment I only use 2 libraries from boost, type_traits and call_traits.
Take care with call_traits. The documentation isn't very clear about how it behaves in all circumstances (especially on broken compilers). I would be inclined to build my own individual metafunctions (rather than traits "blobs") for doing the kinds of thigs that call_traits tries to address.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com