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Re: [C++] Compile-Time Reflection Branch
- From: Gabriel Dos_Reis <gdosreis at sophia dot inria dot fr>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Gabriel Dos_Reis <Gabriel dot Dos_Reis at sophia dot inria dot fr>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 20:11:49 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Re: [C++] Compile-Time Reflection Branch
- References: <15926.24530.387987.95771@perceval.inria.fr><62020000.1043774868@warlock.codesourcery.com>
| --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