Re: [boost] Coding guidelines - comments

From: George A. Heintzelman (georgeh_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-05 14:51:56

From: Peter Dimon <pdimov_at_[hidden]>
> From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
> > Anyhow, we should probably globally change to #include "..."
> >
> > That is the correct form for all non-standard library includes, and Boost
> > should be using it.
> 
> Using the <...> form has some benefits:
> 

> * You know which header is being included, since the current directory is
> not searched (I know that this is implementation-specific, but it's often
> true.)

I'm not sure which way this ought to go, but I wanted to point one a 
benefit that arises from Peter's point here. Using <...> makes it much 
easier to override/test a fix to a single header, where it might be 
included by other headers, without having to worry about keeping 
complete repositories up-to-date, etc. At my workplace we have a system 
in place which takes advantage of this to significantly reduce compile 
times and copies of object files hanging around. It works best when (as 
in our code :( ) there are lots of inter-module dependencies. Granted 
that boost is pretty good in that regard, but lots of user code isn't.

George Heintzelman
georgeh_at_[hidden]