Re: [boost] config.hpp structure

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-20 18:07:03

At 06:03 PM 1/20/2001 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

 >I don't understand the way the documentation in config.hpp is structured. 

 >It
 >seems to be divided into two sections: "Conformance Flag Macros" and
 >"Compiler Control or Information Macros". I don't really know why a
 >"conformance flag" is not "compiler information". The second section 
seems
 >to contain lots of switches that describe features of the 
implementation's
 >standard library, but some of those also occur in the first section. Can
 >somebody clear up the rhyme/reason here?

Originally I intended Conformance Flag Macros to deal with compiler or 
standard library conformance to the C++ Standard only, and Compiler Control 
or Information Macros to deal with the few things like BOOST_DECL which are 
unrelated to the standard.  But the distinction apparently wasn't clear 
enough, since it clearly hasn't been observed, even by me.

I guess we should eliminate the distinction and order the docs 
alphabetically.

--Beman