"Edward Diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> -Sure, and I expected we'd do that. Not to beat this horse to death,
> -but I think even that doesn't insulate users from the parameters
> -completely. They'll see it in the documentation, and wonder what's
> -going on under the covers with all that complexity, and it will be a
> -distraction.
>
> I don't think that is the distraction.
Here I've been trying to warn against dismissing the effects of
complexity, and there you go doing it! Oh, well.
> The biggest problem with policy-based template classes is the same
> as the problem with functions which have many default parameters:
> it's difficult to set just one somewhere in the middle because one
> must know the reasonable defaults for everything preceding it.
Not neccessarily. See my other post.
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