RE: [boost] 1.15.1 updated posted

From: Moore, Paul (paul.moore_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-06-23 06:39:55

From: David Abrahams [mailto:abrahams_at_[hidden]]
>
> As far as I can tell, your logic isn't even a little bit 
> right here. You seem to have completely misread this
> part of the standard. The technique is
> well-established, and in fact almost everything in 
> operators.hpp (which even works with MSVC) relies
> on it. There may be an issue with MSVC and friend
> _template_ functions defined within the class body, though.

Urgh. I really must learn not to selectively read tiny portions of the
standard in an attempt to back up my prejudices :-( As I noted, I don't need
the friendship anyway, so the issue is moot.

> Go to the vault and try operators.zip. Things have been 
> moving too fast for me to keep up (as the maintainer), too.

Mark checked this and says it's OK, so that's great.

Unless I hear dissenting comments, I'm happy to count this version as
"official". Beman, can you pick it up from the vault to go in when the new
operators.hpp does (might as well keep the two together, so Borland works)?

Paul.

PS I'd really like to get mingw working - does anyone know if the error I
hit is a mingw/gcc bug or something I can/should have coded round?