"Thorsten Ottosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Ronald Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > IIRC, the array_traits library was pulled off of the boost main page
> > and moved into the sandbox a while ago. What is its current status? Is
> > being actively developed or is it currently in stasis?
>
> I recently looked into the array_traits because I needed it for the
> container algorithms if they should work for
> built.in arrays too. However, after a long time I came to the conclusion
> that they will never work
> on non-conforming compilers like vc6/7. The problem is simply the
inability
> to deduce the array size by this overload:
>
> template< typename T, int sz >
> void foo( T (&a) [sz] );
Ups...I was wrong. The above code compiles fine. So the size()/end()
functions from array traits can be made. The problem
is this:
template< typename C >
struct array_traits;
template< typename C, std::size_t N >
struct array_traits< T[sz] >; // won't work
regards
Thorsten
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