Re: [boost] BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT question

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-05-24 12:28:30

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From: "Vesa Karvonen" <vesa.karvonen_at_[hidden]>

> In summary, IMO the benefit of having a simple and robust implementation
of
> static assertion clearly outweighs the benefit of having a verbose but
> brittle static assertion. Now that the boost static assertion has been
shown
> not to work in some situations, I think that research on this should be
> primarily targeted on finding an implementation that works on as many
> compilers as possible.

Very well put! I agree with these priorities.

-Dave