Re: [sigc] TypeTraits

[martin-ml hippogriff de]

> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 17:02 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>> Hi Arnaud!
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this! You are right, the instance() method is
>> completely ununsed. It was needed for some early alpha versions of
>> libsigc++2 that used gcc's non-portable typeof() keyword. I never
>> thought of removing it.
>>
>> The problem is: formally, the type_trait<> template is part of the
>> public API so I hesitate to silently remove the instance() method. On
>> the hand, it doesn't really make sense to conditionally generate it -
>> our only alternative.
>>
>> So, I'm asking the list: is there anybody against completely removing
>> the (internally unused) type_trait<>::instance() method?
>
> I see no problem with removing it. It is a static method (so, non-
> virtual, so it won't affect ABI), and it is completely unimplemented, so
> there is no way that anybody could even link to it.

Okay, patches are welcome :-)
Otherwise, I'll try to get the time to do this tomorrow evening.

Regards,

  Martin