Re: [Algorithms] Complexity of new hardware

[Jon W. <jw...@gm...>]

Nicholas "Indy" Ray wrote:
> Sure, the Data exists, but it is in *very* different formats between
> compilers (compare even open source C language front ends you'll see
> huge variances in data formats). And if you're familiar with how
>   

We already have type_info. Having an array of 
offset-size-name-type_info* for each member of a compound data type (or 
any data type) would not be rocket science, would not be hard to 
implement in a standard way, and would be very useful. It could be a 
very simple extension to the existing type_info class, returning 
entirely static data.
Doing the same for templates (iterating through member names and types) 
would be harder to implement cleanly, but would be even more useful.
The necessity to express yourself two or three times in various macros, 
declarations, definitions, code generators etc is one big wart in C++. 
Don't Repeat Yourself!
... and I probably should take further discussion to something like 
comp.lang.cplusplus ;-)

Sincerely,

jw