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Louis Dionne
b26406d649 Simplify the header hierarchy: too modular isn't good.
This essentially undo parts of 307d3d0. While it seemed a like good
idea to over-modularize type classes to reduce header dependencies, I
think it was a mistake. What 307d3d0 did was basically split each of
the components of a type class into a single header (typeclass/operators.hpp,
typeclass/mcd_1.hpp, typeclass/mcd_2.hpp, ...).

At first, it resolved many weird header dependency glitches. However, it
also made everything more complex; creating even easy type classes was
sometimes much longer than it should have been, and using type classes
was tricky because you had to know exactly what to include. It also went
against the idea of implicit type class instances being provided whenever
that's possible, which I think is a nice feature of the library. Being
dissatisfied with this, I opted for a simpler header organization with
a fwd/ directory that contains forward declaration headers, and everything
else in the same directory.

A possible objection to this change would be that you are now forced
to include sometimes more than what you strictly need when e.g. defining
an instance or using only some instance(s) of a data type. My answer to
this is that Hana is a really small library and the parsing is not
going to have a huge impact on overall compilation time. My bet is that
the time that will be saved by programmers with a simple header hierarchy
outweights the parsing time by far.
2014-10-25 09:47:05 -04:00
Louis Dionne
d132db0ebf Use finer grained assertions acknowledging Constants 2014-08-05 10:37:54 -04:00
Louis Dionne
e9dfdeb57b Core: merge instantiates into is_a for the same functionality 2014-07-31 13:00:57 -04:00
Louis Dionne
b61dfc00a6 Core: document header structure and use when<> in datatype<> 2014-07-31 11:41:42 -04:00
Louis Dionne
8a8ff797ab Split Core into subdirectories to reduce dependencies. 2014-07-30 11:15:26 -04:00
Louis Dionne
7e8f109d7f Modularize List and add a minimal instance 2014-07-16 16:26:23 -04:00
Louis Dionne
5a2de2073e Reorganize and rename the adapted/ folder. 2014-07-07 12:42:20 -04:00
Louis Dionne
ae8c12ce17 Remove useless include. 2014-07-01 10:58:01 -04:00
Louis Dionne
96a2bb0a7f Core: allow instances to be explicitly disabled 2014-07-01 10:51:42 -04:00