The last installment of my C/C++ Users' Journal "Common Knowledge"
column is now available on the CUJ Online Experts Forum at
http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8906/cujexp0311dewhurst/

Unfinished Business
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All good things must come to an end and so, coincidentally, must this
column. In this last installment of Common Knowledge we'll look at
combining some template metaprogramming odds and ends that have been
kicking around in my "to think about sometime" folder to see if we can
come up with a reasonable framework for ad hoc type manipulation. We'll
fail, but it'll be fun to make the attempt. Along the way we'll consider
the creative use of rocks in automotive maintenance, type translation to
facilitate compile-time manipulation, un-instantiation of class
templates, giving the STL allocator "rebind" mechanism the boot,
typelist meta-generic algorithms, meta-predicate adaptation, and the
importance of having fun.