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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-02 15:02:03
"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> writes:
> Ah, and here I think is the sticking point. I think we are thinking of
> traits and policies as complements/duals of each other. That is
> certainly a natural way for brains to dichotomize things. But, after
> writing my definitions and seeing more discussion, I am led to the
> conclusion that traits and policies are fundamentally different things.
>
> That is, I claim that "traitness" is a property of a *type*, but
std::iterator_traits is not a type. Don't you mean a *class
template*?
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com