source code size metric: Python and modern C++

[David Abrahams]

Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> writes:

>> The comment above says it all. Arity means "number of arguments" in
>> case you didn't know.  The limit on the number of parameters to a
>> function is actually bounded by some internal limit in your compiler,
>> which is required to be documented. So in practice, you can only go
>> that high.
>  
> Thanks, I didn't know that. It still sucks though:
>
> add<int, float, int, int, long, int, long, long>(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h)
>
> Seems less convenient than:
>
> add(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h)

Why would you ever write out all the template parameters??

   add<int>(a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h)

was all I was proposing, where int is the return type.

I'll get back to you later on the rest.

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