Re: [boost] Possible emergency: boost/numeric

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-27 09:12:57

From: "Björn Karlsson" <Bjorn.Karlsson_at_[hidden]>

> > From: David Abrahams [mailto:dave_at_[hidden]]
> [snip]
> > I think it's just a low QOI compiler implementation quirk.
>
> That's what I thought - just wanted to make sure that was the case.
>
> [Joerg]
> > > (and an
> > > idea how the new name should look (back to numerics? ;-))
> >
> > Probably.
> [snip]
> > And that's where we left it.
>
> Ok, then I'd say this is rather urgent... If the name must change, it
should
> definitely be changed before release. On the other hand, this is (not
that
> blame is important here) a compiler issue, and there may also be
> workarounds. I guess it would work if the path to standard library
headers
> was set before path_to/boost? If so, we do have an option of just
> documenting this unfortunate clash of names/implementation quirks.

We'd also have to change our toolsets to make that work. This can be
difficult, since many compilers automatically stick the system headers at
the end of the #include <...> search path.

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