- remove unnecessary includes
- expunge all remaining usages of boost::format
- able to leave out the expliti string(elm) in output
- drop various operator<<, since we're now picking up
custom string conversions automatically
- delete diagnostics headers, which are now largely superfluous
- use newer helper functions occasionally
I didn't blindly change any usage of <iostream> though;
sometimes, just using the output streams right away
seems adequate.
basically the 32/64bit problem was caused by things like 23L, which creates a long.
Unfortunately on 64bit platforms, this is aliased to int64_t,
while on 32bit i386, it is a distinct data type, but just 32bit,
like int.
The code in question here is just test / demonstration code
and actually just needs "some integer number". So let's stick
to good old boring int then.
finally got all those copy / assgnment flavours straight.
Still unsolved: unable to instantiate the Variant template
for a type with private assignment operator (like e.g. Time )
The problem is our virtual assignement operator, which forces
instantiation of the implementation (for the VTable), even if
the actual assignment is never invoked.
- we do not want type mutations
- we do not want "empty" records ever
- we do not support "probing" for contents
- visitor style access for generic value handling
