source code size metric: Python and modern C++

[David Abrahams]

Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> The type-safe version could easily look like this instead:
>> 
>>    ServerProxy
> s("http://www.sweetapp.com/cgi-bin/xmlrpc-test/rpc1.py");
>>    int result = s.call_method<int>("add", 2, 3);
>>
>> That's not too bad.
>
> You can only do this in the special case where all the arguments and the
> result are of the same type. 

Not true.

    struct ServerProxy
    {
       ...
       // use a family of these with different arities
       template <class R, class A1, class A2>
       R call_method(char const* name, A1 a1, A2 a2);
       ...
    };

> Do I really have to pick another example to demonstrate this?

It's up to you, bubba.

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