"David Abrahams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Yeah, I haven't always been very comfortable with the > value-per-character of mpl::for_each -- it seems to have similar > properties to std::for_each in that way. It's got certain advantages > for re-use: > > 1. You can use different sequence types (I know Andrei doesn't buy > this one, but I still do; the concept of tuple-as-type-sequence > being one motivator)
My understanding is that front and pop_front work with different sequence types, isn't that so? If that's the case, (1) illustrates no advantage of the complicated version over the simple version. > I've been talking with Aleksey recently about how to improve the > syntactic situation without losing the separation of concerns that we > get, but we didn't come up with anything convincingly better. The template pattern matching just makes it too easy... :o))) Andrei _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
