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From: Olaf van der Spek <ml@vdspek.org> To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [boost] Adding support for auto in Boost.Foreach
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM, paul Fultz <pfultz2@yahoo.com> wrote:
Is there interest in adding something like this? Or maybe just part of it? Also if there interest, what kind of process would I go through to get them submitted and reviewed?
In cases where the compiler doesn't support auto? Is it worth the effort? Moving to a compiler that does support auto seems easier.
Its much less effort to add support for auto, than to get newer versions of gcc to compile on older platforms(such as solaris 8 or even 10). Most of the work is in place(parsing keywords are done and typeof emulations is done), its just a matter of piecing it together. Also, auto is only half of the update, the other half, was a way to fix the bug with commas in a type, which is still a problem on newer compilers(such as visual2010)