From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-04 01:26:00
Beman Dawes wrote:
>
> At 07:28 PM 8/3/99 +0100, Kevlin Henney wrote:
>
> >Beman Dawes wrote:
> >While the template approach seems conceptually more elegant, I find
> >the resulting user code unbearably ugly. The typedef and constant
> >approach is basically stdint.h without the macros, a nice
> advantange.
> >
> > True, but it might be argued that the template approach is in
> many ways
> > consistent w/ the way types are found from templates in the
> standard
> > library.
> >
> >Kevlin, what did your template approach look like?
> >
> > int_exact<32>::type
> > int_least<32>::type
>
> That strikes me as better than having a single type with
> exact/least/fast/etc types embedded. Not sure exactly why, but my
> gut feeling is it would extend better.
I am sure why a single type with typedef for (least or fast)
-- Valentin Bonnard