Re: [boost] Boost.Test progress

From: Douglas Paul Gregor (gregod_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-14 10:36:15

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, William E. Kempf wrote:
> > > *  !!(predicate) fix as discussed
> >
> > No longer necessary. I switched to BOOST_TEST(p? true: false); adding !!
> in
> > BOOST_TEST would silently test operator!, not the "boolean context"
> > conversion.
>
> I'd say it would still be necessary since other people are sure to use the
> same construct.  However, you bring up a good point about it causing the
> wrong thing to be tested, so !! is the wrong solution.  Probably need to
> apply the ternary operator instead.

Maybe we can introduce another macro here, such as
BOOST_TEST_BOOLEAN_CONTEXT, so that what we are checking is more explicit?
I'm getting big by this same issue in Function, and x? true : false is,
IMHO, quite unclear

        Doug