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Thank your Sir! Sadly C++ drags a bad reputation from its earlier years. I wish my posts make C++ reachable and enjoyable for common guys like me.

• thechao 11y ago
  In a somewhat misspent youth, I was a grad student of Jaakko Järvi when he and the rest of the Indiana folk were pitching variadic templates and concepts. I was browbeat into attempting to add concept constrained variadic templates to GCC. So... it turns out, for this problem, for precise constraints, the number of constraints is strongly exponential (factorial of factorials). I think we ended up going with the intersection of all the concepts, instead; which totally sucked & made constrained variadic templates pretty useless. I suppose it doesn't matter since the concepts proposal was torpedoed. (But that's another story.)
  • jguegant 11y ago
    I yet didn't check the proposal for C++17 concepts, it seems to constantly change since C++11. Does it includes anything related to variadic templates? Anyway, you must have had a lot of fun with Jaakko Järvi as a teacher!
    • thechao 11y ago
      I don't know---I finished my PhD 7 years ago & never really got back into the ISO stuff. Jaakko was (and is!) fantastic.