Re: [boost] Re: Review: Special functions, Quaternions, Octonions

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-20 18:47:43

At 06:29 PM 5/18/2001, Jens Maurer wrote:

 >Hubert HOLIN wrote:
 >> > So now I have some nit/picky stuff: (being the kind of detail guy I
 >am.)
 >> >
 >> >   #include <boost/filename>
 >> >
 >> > should be
 >> >    #include "boost/filename"
 >>
 >>         Well, this is the way it was, but the change to <...> was
 >> requested by Jens Maurer during the early phases...
 >
 >There is prior art:  A quick "grep" through the boost include files shows
 >that there is only one single occurrence of "...", and everything else
 >is < ... >.
 >
 >If this is going to be changed to "...", it needs to be implemented on a
 >far greater scale than the library under review.

Yes, agreed.  We had a report that some compiler couldn't handle "..." 
properly, but I can't remember which one.  Seems like the sort of thing we 
should tackle if we ever do a general cleanup.  Not as part of one review.

--Beman