Re: [boost] Re: #include <boost/...> to #include "boost/..." transition?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-20 14:17:51

At 02:09 PM 7/20/2002, Gennaro Prota wrote:

 >On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:03:23 -0400, "David Abrahams"
 ><david.abrahams_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >>...
 >>What really determines whether a library header file is a "header" or a
 >>"source file"?
 >>
 >
 >Well, since you are one of the standard experts there must be
 >something wrong in what I know. So far I thought that in the standard
 >terminology 'header' is what we colloquially call 'standard header'.
 >In other words, there's no 'user header' like foo.hpp or
 >my_library.hpp. They are simply source files.
 >
 >In fact, the wording of 16.2 confirms this belief (it speaks of
 >'header' for the #include <...> form and of 'source file' for the
 >#include "..." form). Moreover, a brute search of the expression
 >"standard header" in the whole standard yielded no occurrence in
 >normative text.
 >
 >Opinion?

That's my understanding also.  To the standard, a header is a standard 
library header.  There is no such thing as a user header, only a user 
source file.

--Beman