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Re: [C++] Compile-Time Reflection Branch


| --On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:02:30 PM +0100 Gabriel Dos_Reis 
| <gdosreis@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
| 
| > After sufficient experience, the features would be backported to the
| > official tree for approval and, hopefully, inclusion.
| 
| Be warned -- I will push back hard on merging anything that does not
| look like it is about to be standardized in precisely the form that it
| has been implemented.

Of course :-)

I do expect (constructive) resistance so that we don't end up with
something that is hard to maintain.  I would however be surprised to
see you oppose to support for type-traits ;-) [I proposal voted on for 
inclusion in the TRs at the last meeting]

| (I do know how useful these features might be; CodeSourcery has
| written a heck of a lot of template meta-programming code.)
| 
| I'm just one voice of course.

I'll post a check-in policy shortly -- in a nutshell I expect
fruitful discussion on each feature, involving active C++ folks
working on GCC. 

-- Gaby


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