Subject: Re: [boost] Phoenix review
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-25 09:48:13
Joel de Guzman wrote:
> Doug Gregor wrote:
>> Also in the "Arguments" subsection, there's a parenthetical comment
>> "and it's BLL counterparts: _1, _2, _3, _4, and so on). IIRC, the _#
>> placeholders actually came from Boost.Bind; the Lambda library
>> originally used arg1, arg2, and arg3.
>
> Hah! I didn't know that. I've always used arg1, arg2 but I
> didn't steal that from lambda. Lambda became a later influence
> after FC++.
Lambda's original placeholders were free1, free2 and free3. _1, _2, _3 were
added later as aliases. I think that it has never had _4 and above.
Jaakko's Binder library - the precursor of Lambda - used free1 and free2.