Dirk Gerrits wrote:

>  Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote:
> 
>  > If you are tired of angle brackets in your templates (no, it's not a TV
>  > commercial :), may be you'll like this one:
> 
> 
>  [source code snipped]
> 
>  > The above actually compiles on Comeau C/C++ 4.3.0.1 and Intel C++ 6.0
>  > with
>  > the current MPL sources in the CVS; see
>  > 
>  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/boost/boost/libs/m 
> 
>  >
>  > pl/example/lambda2.cpp for an example. Note that the "factorial" snippet
>  > there doesn't work yet (if you ask 'fact::value', it will blow).
> 
> 
>  Seems very nice. But I feel to see the practical use of it. Is it just
>  syntactic sugar? And if not, could you enlighten me on the practical
>  use? :)

feel should be fail, of course.

And I hope I didn't sound to negative. Syntactic sugar can be good too. 
I just like to know if that is all it is.

Dirk Gerrits



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