Re: Re: Registries [2]

At 18:42 2003-07-29, David Abrahams wrote:
>Daniel Wallin <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I'm starting to doubt our motives for local registries altogether, I
> > might be forgetting something or I might be drunk, but right now it
> > seems to me that we'd be better off with only a global registry. I
> > just can't think of any cases where there would be interest in hiding
> > converters.
> > This is quite a turnover for me, so if someone could convince me
> > that there are benefits with local registries I'd be glad. ;)
>
>Consider: one extension is converting std::vector<int> into native
>tuples, and another has exposed a class_ wrapper.

Right, but that only justifies local registries of to_xxx converters.
Any reason to have the from_xxx converters local as well?

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Daniel Wallin



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