1<html> 2<head> 3<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 4<title>Functional groups</title> 5<link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../../../doc/src/boostbook.css" type="text/css"> 6<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.1"> 7<link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="Chapter 1. The Variadic Macro Data Library 1.9"> 8<link rel="up" href="../index.html" title="Chapter 1. The Variadic Macro Data Library 1.9"> 9<link rel="prev" href="vmd_vc.html" title="Visual C++ define"> 10<link rel="next" href="vmd_data_types.html" title="Data types"> 11</head> 12<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 13<table cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr> 14<td valign="top"><img alt="Boost C++ Libraries" width="277" height="86" src="../../../../../boost.png"></td> 15<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../index.html">Home</a></td> 16<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../libs/libraries.htm">Libraries</a></td> 17<td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/people.html">People</a></td> 18<td align="center"><a href="http://www.boost.org/users/faq.html">FAQ</a></td> 19<td align="center"><a href="../../../../../more/index.htm">More</a></td> 20</tr></table> 21<hr> 22<div class="spirit-nav"> 23<a accesskey="p" href="vmd_vc.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../index.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="vmd_data_types.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 24</div> 25<div class="section"> 26<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> 27<a name="variadic_macro_data.vmd_detail"></a><a class="link" href="vmd_detail.html" title="Functional groups">Functional groups</a> 28</h2></div></div></div> 29<p> 30 The particular constructs for which VMD has functionality can be divided into 31 these categories: 32 </p> 33<div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1"> 34<li class="listitem"> 35 Emptiness 36 </li> 37<li class="listitem"> 38 Identifiers 39 </li> 40<li class="listitem"> 41 Numbers 42 </li> 43<li class="listitem"> 44 Types 45 </li> 46<li class="listitem"> 47 Boost PP data types ( array, list, seq, and tuple ) 48 </li> 49<li class="listitem"> 50 Sequences 51 </li> 52<li class="listitem"> 53 Additional helper variadic macros 54 </li> 55</ol></div> 56<p> 57 The first six categories delineate the data types which VMD can parse. The 58 last category presents additional macros which will prove helpful for a macro 59 programmer using variadic macros with VMD and Boost PP. 60 </p> 61<p> 62 A general explanation of each of these categories will follow in the appropriate 63 place in the documentation. 64 </p> 65<p> 66 VMD macros for working with the above data types which VMD understands can 67 be divided into 'specific' and 'generic' macros. 68 </p> 69<p> 70 The specific macros ask whether some input data is a particular data type. 71 The generic macros work with input data as any data type while allowing the 72 programmer to separately query the type of data. 73 </p> 74<p> 75 Both specific and generic macros have their place and the macro programmer 76 can decide which to use for any given situation. 77 </p> 78</div> 79<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 80<td align="left"></td> 81<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2010-2017 Tropic Software 82 East Inc</div></td> 83</tr></table> 84<hr> 85<div class="spirit-nav"> 86<a accesskey="p" href="vmd_vc.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/prev.png" alt="Prev"></a><a accesskey="u" href="../index.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/up.png" alt="Up"></a><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/home.png" alt="Home"></a><a accesskey="n" href="vmd_data_types.html"><img src="../../../../../doc/src/images/next.png" alt="Next"></a> 87</div> 88</body> 89</html> 90
