Re: [boost] boost policy against inline friend functions?

26 Oct 2009


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On Monday 26 October 2009, Stefan Strasser wrote:
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what's wrong with
    template<class Y> friend bool operator<(shared_ptr<Y> const & rhs)
const {
        return pn < rhs.pn;
    }
in class shared_ptr?
compiler compatibility? other reasons?
should boost libraries avoid inline friend functions in general?
Apparently some compilers don't support template friends.  There is the 
BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS config macro to detect this though.

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Re: [boost] boost policy against inline friend functions?

Frank Mori Hess