4 Nov
2012
4 Nov
'12
11:48 a.m.
I'm afraid I thought the same thing when he said this. He has also stated publicly that Microsoft won't ever implement 2-phase lookup, which, last I checked, is required for 100% std-compliance. It's not strictly needed, but is pretty much the only realistic way I can imagine to implement name lookup correctly.
While name lookup is quite broken in MSVC, the only situations where you'd need the correct behaviour are however arguably bad style.
... well, some workaronds for msvc lookup bugs tend to result in code, which i'd consider as `bad style' ... this is basically the reason, why [1] is not fixed. tim [1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7358