[boost] Re: Don't do that! I won't... but why?

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-27 09:45:26

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 16:48:00 +0200, Björn Karlsson
<Bjorn.Karlsson_at_[hidden]> wrote:

[...]
>
>If you need to check for the availability of numeric_limits, that supposedly
>means that you intend to use it; and there's already a working solution in
>place, namely boost/limits.hpp. As it already does The Right Thing, there's
>no need to ever check for BOOST_NO_LIMITS.
>
>As I didn't write those notes, this is only my interpretation, of course.

Yes, I just wondered if there was some odd reason behind that wording.
Consider that it doesn't say "there's no need to check", it
peremptorily says "never check", which is quite different ;-)

Genny.