Re: String literal as template parameter?

On 13 Apr., 20:45, Looney <hardy_melbou...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> the current standard does not sup****t Variadic Templates they may be
> added in the c++ox revision
> i do not think any c++ compilers other than gcc sup****t
> thishttp://www.osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/cpp/variadic-templates.html
> so i fyou do wnat ****table code or are using som other compiler you
> would need to declare
> your class templates with the required number of template parameters.

IMO the OP is aware that *current* C++ does not have
variadic templates. But realizing that C++0x will
be finished somewhere in 2009 his example is quite
reasonable, because variadic templates do have *very*
high chances to be introduced into C++0x.

I find his extension proposal to allow a string-literal
as an alternative argument of variadic non-type templates
(of character type) quite interesting. This is IMO the
first approach, where I would see any chance of acceptance
on implementors side.
Early proposals - which had no variadic templates available
and usually reasoned about 'char const*' template parameters -
lead to several problematic situations, which I do not
see to exist for this proposal.

Just my personal 2 Euro cent,

Daniel Krügler



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