From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-26 18:12:23
Doug Gregor wrote:
> A while ago I announced the availability of an implementation of
> "variadic templates" for GCC. Variadic templates eliminate a huge
> amount of redundancy in several Boost libraries (including some that
> have gone into TR1), such as tuples, function, bind, mem_fn, and MPL.
> I have now completed the compiler (everything I've thought to try
> works) and completely reimplemented TR1's <tuple> and <functional>
> headers using variadic templates. The resulting code is much smaller,
> clean, and compiles significantly faster that the previous versions.
> Compiler binaries and sources, both including the implementation of
> TR1, are available here:
>
> http://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/cpp/variadic-templates.html
>
> I think variadic templates are a big step forward for C++ libraries
> that deal with function objects, forwarding, and type-lists. If
> you're interested, please read the documentation, hack some code with
> the compiler, and tell your local C++ committee representative to
> vote for variadic templates in C++0x :)
Oh man, this is awesome!
Regards,
-- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net