Michael Marcin wrote:
Jody Hagins wrote:
Does that make any sense at all?
Maybe.
IIUC what that forward declared partial specialization is doing is akin to saying: - I know the default implementation of tag_of can't be correct for boost::array<T,N> - There should be an implementation of tag_of that will make it work for boost::array<T,N> - I don't know what that implementation is, you or someone else better provide it
Is it then true that when proper definition of the partial specialization is provided this partial specialization of the declaration has no effect whatsoever?
If that is true and this is a compiler bug then perpahs we can use a configuration macro like BOOST_NO_DECLARTION_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION to simply omit these these forward declarations on compilers that choke on them (like CW 9.4 apparerently does).
Or maybe I still don't understand. Are these forward declaration partial specializations strictly necessary? Thanks, Michael Marcin