Rob Stewart <stewart@sig.com> writes:
From: Jonathan Wakely <cow@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:55:37AM -0400, Rob Stewart wrote:
What's to stop any compiler from using a 3 digit version number sometime in the future? Yes, GCC has moved on to 4.x, so there's no 3.x version even close to that, and there aren't likely to be (m)any more 2.x releases, but if you are going to choose a convention, it ought to account for forseeable problems, right?
Unless it makes things too hard to read. With typically seven digits in a number it gets hard to divide them into groups of 3. Note that all the numbers above are wrong because they're octal. You can't use a leading zero, so typically we'll be looking at 5 digits. what's-to-stop-them-from-using-a-4-digit-number-ly y'rs, dave -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com