Re: [ggt-devel] gmtl::makeInverse()

[Patrick H. <pa...@13...>]

Okay, the change is committed.  Since this changes the API, should the 
version increase go to 0.3.0 or 0.2.2?  It removes a default argument 
that I doubt anyone would have ever used, so 0.2.2 would probably be okay.

  -Patrick

Ben Scott wrote:
> You are right. makeInverse() shouldn't need Type2Type. The only reason I 
> can think of that it might be there would be to work around a VC7 
> compile error. However, I'm pretty sure that's not the case since I'm 
> not seeing that in the CVS log.
> 
> I give you the green light on removing the Type2Type. When you do 
> though, make sure you modify the src argument to pass by const reference 
> rather that const value. (I just noticed that error ...)
> 
> cheers,
> -Ben
> 
> Patrick Hartling wrote:
> 
>> Is there a reason that gmtl::makeInverse() (lines 1064-1070 of 
>> Generate.h) uses the Type2Type idiom?  Just from looking at it, it 
>> seems like there can be no ambiguity relating to overloading because 
>> the return type always matches the parameter type.  Am I missing 
>> something?
>>
>>  -Patrick
>>
>>
>> P.S. I ask because the Type2Type thing doesn't work at all in 
>> languages without generics (at least AFAICT), and the fewer places I 
>> have to write wrappers, the better.
>>
>>
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