Re: [boost] Possible emergency: boost/numeric

From: Anthony Williams (anthwil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-30 05:13:28

Guillaume Melquiond writes:
 > On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Joerg Walter wrote:
 > 
 > > I've started to change directory and namespace structure from
 > > 
 > > /boost/numeric/ublas
 > > boost::numeric::ublas
 > > 
 > > to
 > > 
 > > /boost/numerics/ublas
 > > boost::numerics::ublas.
 > > 
 > > I'll try to commit these changes ASAP.
 > > 
 > > Thanks
 > > 
 > > Joerg
 > 
 > I may have missed something; but I still don't understand why this change
 > is necessary. Indeed, the Boost include search path doesn't contain
 > 'boost' (all the libraries are included by '#include
 > <boost/apath/alibrary.hpp>'. So when a program uses "#include<numeric>',
 > the compiler (even if it has some problems) should never find
 > 'boost/numeric/' since it's not in the search path; it can only find
 > 'numeric', which is expected.

If a compiler treats <> and "" the same in #include directives, and #include
<numeric> appears in a boost header, this will cause a problem.

Anthony