[boost] Re: ATTN: All Developers Interested in Boost.Preprocessor

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-04-30 21:25:57

"Paul Mensonides" <pmenso57_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> ** and which I'm not sure is even addressing a real-world problem.  It
>>    might be; I am just not sure.
>
> It is not something that can't be worked around, but it is a
> nuisance.  Basically, you have to expand a macro to produce a
> comma--but do it only at the last possible step so it doesn't go
> through any other macros.  The problem is not that so much.  Rather,
> it implies that you have to pass everything else as such an
> "invocable" entity--which is annoying at best.

I was talking about the "macro scoping" feature currently under
consideration in the LWG, not Vesa's proposal.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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