[boost] Re: MSVC template weirdness, was Questions

From: Dave Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-03-18 00:41:55

on 3/17/00 10:32 AM, Beman Dawes at beman_at_[hidden] wrote:

>> At least my recommendation is: Do not activate the member function
>> templates for boost, MSVC is too bad ...
> 
> 
> That is my feeling, too, after hearing how tricky it is to get VC++
> member templates to work correctly.  It doesn't seem like people
> developing on other platforms would stand much chance of their
> submissions working on VC++.  The silent failures are particularly
> scary.

I don't know about this. Suppose we include a separate switch
BOOST_MEMBER_TEMPLATES_MSVC6 which can be used instead of
BOOST_MEMBER_TEMPLATES on code which has been carefully vetted with this
*&^%#@ compiler. Many of us are still forced to use it, and it is sometimes
possible to make it work properly ;)

-Dave