Chapter 1. Boost.TypeIndex 3.0

Sometimes getting and storing information about a type at runtime is required. For such cases a construction like &typeid(T) or C++11 class std::type_index is usually used. And that is the point, where problems start:

typeid(T) and std::type_index require Run Time Type Info (RTTI)
some implementations of typeid(T) strip const, volatile and references from type, while others don't
some compilers have bugs and do not correctly compare std::type_info objects across shared libraries
only a few implementations of Standard Library currently provide std::type_index
no easy way to store type info without stripping const, volatile and references
no nice and portable way to get human readable type names
no way to easily make your own type info class

Boost.TypeIndex library was designed to work around all those issues.

	Note
	`T` means type here. Think of it as of `T` in `template <class T>`

	Warning
	Version 3.0 of this library is waitning for Boost mini-review.