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Re: gcc 3.5 integration branch proposal
Scott Robert Ladd <coyote@coyotegulch.com> writes:
| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > (But, I'm afraid there will be some divergence on what "typical" means.
| > Do we consider Gerald's testcase typical? Do we consider template
| > constructs found in Boot typical?).
|
| Assuming you mean "Boost" above -- no, I don't consider template
| gymnastics to be normal. Pathological, perhaps, but not normal.
Yes I meant "Boost". I also suspect that it has wide acceptance in
the C++ community.
| In the interest of disclosure, I should not that I spent yesterday
| writing a very complex set of template metaprograms -- which, while
| necessary for performance, were also pathological and abnormal,
| IMHO. ;)
I suspect that we all end up somewhere writing those "pathological and
abnormal" template constructs in typical codes ;- )
-- Gaby