On Jul 22, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Vertleyb wrote:
- The user combines all the groups in a single include, effectively chaining the enums:
Do the enums always have to be consecutive? I see no problem with keeping a central file containing the enum values for all Boost libraries. Then for the simplest cases (the user uses only Boost), typeof would "just work". Users would still have to extend the library using BOOST_TYPEOF_USER_GROUP, of course, but at least that's for their own code. Is it feasible?
Any comments?
Just reiterating that I think usability is more important than worrying about the ODR in this case.[*] Doug [*] Last summer I told a room full of compiler developers "It's an ODR violation, get over it", referring to a design to be integrated into their C++ compiler/library. They gagged, choked, and accepted the entire thing for the next release.