4 May
2005
4 May
'05
2:15 p.m.
"Iain K. Hanson" <iain.hanson@videonetworks.com> wrote in message news:1115211567.14534.594.camel@dev-ihanson.ct.uk.videonetworks.com... | On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:38 -0400, Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote: | > With all due respect -- this was written more than 11 years ago -- you | > cannot literally apply this now... | | Why not? The arguments that the chapter uses are as valid today as when | written. I think it is fair to say Bjarne would still like to see the preprocessor less used, especially in header files (I'm basing this on proposals like #scope etc). Nevertheless, the preprocessor is a good way to generate some tedious code; just look inside boost.assign. -Thorsten