Edward Diener <eddielee@tropicsoft.com> writes:
Maybe that wasn't the best choice of words. I just meant that we'd lose the functionality provided by BOOST_WORKAROUND if we started using the macros you suggest instead.
We would not so much as lose the functionality as offer a more simplistic and readable way to express it. My suggestion is just about readability. When I see:
#if BOOST_WORKAROUND(nnnn,comparison operator)
I often can not tell to what it refers without some comment. But if I saw, as an example:
#if BOOST_COMPILER_VC71
it becomes easier to understand.
You obviously didn't read the entire comment in workaround.hpp then. #if BOOST_COMPILER_VC71 can't support BOOST_DETECT_OUTDATED_WORKAROUNDS. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com