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Components to call functions and function objects and to make Fusion code callable
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/functional.hpp&gt;
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What is a function call?
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It is a name and a tuple written next to each other, left-to-right.
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Although the C++ syntax does not allow to replace <tt class="literal">(a,b,c)</tt>
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Having generic C++ code call back arbitrary functions provided by the client
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Transforming a fused function into its unfused counterpart allows to create
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The library provides several adapter variants that implement this transformation,
ranging from strictly typed to fully generic. The latter provides a reusable,
approximate solution to <a href="http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2002/n1385.htm" target="_top">The
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