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The 'Is A' Traits

These are in the upcoming C++0x standard, so are only a temporary feature in the ecl. They are a subset and work just like boosts type traits. More will be added as needed. The code snippet below is for runtime code, but they're actually more useful with enable_if in determining which compile time template specialisations to instantiate.

   1 if ( is_float<double>::value ) {
   2   // take some action
   3 }

The current list include:

• ecl::is_integral

• ecl::is_signed

• ecl::is_unsigned

• ecl::is_float

• ecl::is_byte

• ecl::is_signed_byte

• ecl::is_unsigned_byte