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

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-22 21:59:10

At Monday 2002/07/22 10:12, you wrote:

> > From: "Victor A. Wagner, Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]>
>
> > I think you missed the point.... NOBODY is suggesting relative paths
>
>    Certainly, it is *you* who dismissively missed the point.
>
>    /usr/include/sys/dir.h is an absolute pathname because it starts with 
> root.
>    /etc/hosts is an absolute pathname because it starts with root.
>    sys/dir.h is a relative pathname because it does not start with root.
>    hosts (a lone filename without directory) is a relative pathname 
> because it does not start with root.
>
>   More to the point (quoting from the subject line itself), dispelling 
> your fictional wanna-be-trump-card claim that "NOBODY" is discussing 
> relative paths, in #include <boost/...> to #include "boost/...", the 
> boost/... itself is a relative pathname because it does not start with 
> the root directory.

If you are asserting that anything that doesn't start with '/' (a system 
specific and not relevant to the OS I use most of the time) are relative, 
then we have a severe disagreement on the meaning of what the standard is 
saying.

>   I could have written #include <filename>/"filename" instead of #include 
> <relativePathname>/"relativePathname", but that would exclude such 
> pertinent examples as #include <boost/foo.hpp>/"boost/foo.hpp".  I could 
> have written #include <pathname>/"pathname", but that 
> superclass-concept/superordinate would have included irrelevant absolute 
> pathnames which I intentionally wanted to overtly exclude.
>
>   Now that we all have the remedial entry-level prerequisite knowledge 
> straight---crawl walk run---please re-read my posting as it will make a 
> lot more sense to you now, since you evidently did not have the necessary 
> prerequisite knowledge the first time around.

Thank you for your elicidation.

>   By the way Victor A. Wagner Jr, I find your socio-politically-motivated 
> signature line very offensive and thoroughly inappropriate for 
> Boost.  Please remove it.  Please ensure that it will not appear in any 
> of your future postings to Boost.

No, your offense is something that is internal to you.  I have no control 
over what you find offensive.

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