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Subject: Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Variadics suggestion
From: Matt Calabrese (rivorus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-05 00:46:30


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> 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.

+1

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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-Matt Calabrese

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