Hel is a general purpose C++14 library.
With the help of C++14 features, I try to design this library with a few unusual constraints aimed at making the interface and the implementation simpler (compared to e.g. Boost libraries):
- All namespace scoped functions are extension points for the library.
- They can be overloaded by client code.
- They are always called using their non-qualified name by the library (thus invoking ADL, a.k.a. Koenig Lookup).
- There is always at least one parameter that is dependent on a type defined by the library.
- When the library needs an utility that can't follow those rules, it defines a global constexpr function object. It makes it non-overloadable and, as a bonus, a first-class object.
- No explicit or partial specialization of templates
- No explicit function template arguments
- Yes, I even plan to stop using std::forward. It is annoying because the calls shows up in the debugger.
std::forward<T>(t)is just syntactic sugar forstatic_cast<T&&>(t)anyway.
- Yes, I even plan to stop using std::forward. It is annoying because the calls shows up in the debugger.
- No "details" namespaces
- All namespace scoped entities are part of the public interface.
Hel is the daughter of Loki.