Gennaro Prota <gennaro_prota@yahoo.com> writes:
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 20:24:34 -0500, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
To be consistent and to prevent being blindsided in the future by other compilers deciding to spoof one another's macros, perhaps we should define BOOST_x, where x is the compiler name, for every compiler we have a config for. And then pointing out the problem in our lib guide for developers.
It's incredible, however, how proposals are appreciated in proportion to the author's authoritativeness. No polemic intent but I've proposed this 18 months ago (for libraries) and nobody agreed (please, don't tell me that for libraries "it is a different thing" :)).
PS: I'm not angry, really, just noticing.
I didn't notice a great chorus of assent to Beman's suggestion, nor to mine when I proposed the same thing. AFAIK nothing has been done about it to date. I'm not sure what you're noticing. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com