2009/6/10 Sid Sacek <ssacek@securewatch24.com>:
I do appreciate your insights into the inner workings of the Boost community. I'm not discouraged about the lack of interest in my suggestion, but I was somewhat surprised. Boost libraries are one of those things that make life better for programming engineers. I believed that was the unwritten philosophy behind Boost, to "Make Life Better." Extending that philosophical notion, the Boost libraries would also know about the shortcomings of compilers and operating systems and help to improve their performance as well, simply because it "makes life better."
Your forgetting about the natural impulse to not want to clutter the code with unnecessary workarounds. Make no mistake, that's all it is, since #pragma once is the wrong feature to add to a compiler if you want to speed up header inclusion. It might be acceptable in proprietary code that never moves outside of Windows, but since Boost will still have to have normal include guards, #pragma once is just noise, semantically.
I suppose I must have been mistaken about that... perhaps not everybody in the Boost community has feelings of magnanimity and charity.
Wow, flamebait. And in a top post, too...