-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Matt Calabrese Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 5:47 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Variadics suggestion
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
I'll mention again that I think we should accept some libraries that won't work on broken compilers (like Chaos). "Boost works on this compiler" is an important selling point.
IMO, Chaos should have been a part of Boost years ago. If a popular non-compliant compiler such as VC++ were able to be supported, then that would be great, but since it realistically cannot be supported, that's the problem of Microsoft. If Chaos were a part of boost and more libraries started using it, Microsoft would be much more concerned about fixing their horrible preprocessor.
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