From 29af32106b9ee03308a49b5cc5cac9db1039d761 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Danny Robson <danny@nerdcruft.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:46:14 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] types: add type_tag helper struct

---
 types.hpp | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/types.hpp b/types.hpp
index b2c98c77..1af648d4 100644
--- a/types.hpp
+++ b/types.hpp
@@ -48,4 +48,16 @@ first (T a, Args&& ...b) {
     return first (std::forward<Args>(b)...);
 }
 
+
+namespace util {
+    ///------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    /// represents a type as a POD struct (but is statically recoverable via
+    /// the 'type' member).
+    template <typename T>
+    struct type_tag
+    {
+        typedef T type;
+    };
+}
+
 #endif