Re: [boost] [Review] Shmem

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-11 23:40:13

Tobias Schwinger <tschwinger_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Tobias Schwinger <tschwinger_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>> 
>>>Still, your "#ifdef suggestion" seems much worse to me -- it might
>>>have been just provocative rhetoric rather than a serious proposal,
>>> I
>>>guess...
>> 
>> 
>> No, it was serious.  But if you don't like #ifdefs there are two
>> other proposals on the table that address the problem without using
>> them.
>> 
>
> I have nothing against #ifdefs in general and it has nothing to do
> with personal taste:
>  
> #ifdeffing (what a wonderful neologism) an interface means: client
> code that wants to work regardless of whether the macro is defined or
> not requires #ifdefs as well.

Client code that wants to work whether exceptions are turned on or not
also requires #ifdefs, no matter what you do with the interface to
this particular library.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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