Re: c++/10649: is_pointer<T> reports pointer to member function is not a pointer

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:34:52AM +0200, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Robert Schwartz <robertallanschwartz@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > If I remove the * from "int (foo::*)(void)", then I get "int
> (foo::)(void)".
> > I know this isn't a valid C++ type, but a pointer to a member function is
> > still a pointer, no?
[...]
> You can check the Type Trait library within Boost, they
> have metafunctions to check for every thing you can think of about types,
> and they work on every compiler out there (most of them can work even
> without partial specialization). It will give you an idea about how to
> implement such constructs.

Also, the cxx-reflection-branch will, eventually, implement these templates
(taken from the ISO proposal).  I have a patch which does, but the new parser
won't let me do pointers-to-members like I'd planned.


Phil

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