On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:14 PM, David B. Held wrote:
I would be careful that your target audience doesn't look at the "helloworld" and say, gee, why don't I just use existing language features:While this is a cute idea, my first impression would be: "Uh...is this really something I could use in my own code?" On the other hand, I seem to use compile-time if more than anything else, even in "user code". I suspect that most people will use mpl::if_ and type traits more than anything else, so I think Dave's original example with is_pointer<> would connect with the most programmers. On the other hand, I suspect that library authors are more likely to use the type containers and algorithms, so an example illustrating those might be more appropriate for them. So I guess it depends on the intended audience.
template <class T>
struct my_container
{
// impl2 ...
};
template <class T>
struct my_container<T*>
{
// impl1 ...
};
-Howard
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