"Robert Allan Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I believe a "standardized" (within Boost), portable, and *readable* text >> > representation of T makes my proposal better than typeid(). >> >> I think if readability is the main criterion we'd do much better to >> invest in decoding the typeids generated by GCC. I believe there's >> even a library that comes with it that does that job. > > Why should millions of programmers have to make that "invest"ment?
They don't. > Wouldn't it be better if gcc simply generated better type names? > > That's one fix, not millions. Since as I said, they supply a library which does it with the compiler, I don't think it's really as bad as you make out. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
