[boost] Files of types *.ipp are unfriendly, especially to MSVC ?

From: Paul A. Bristow (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-08 09:47:20

Spirit and date_time use some files of type *.ipp (they are included
'internally').

I had the misfortune to be reading one using MSVC which does not recognize this
as a C++ type and so they are not shown in color, nor laid out etc.

Although these are 'private' detail files, I wonder if *.ipp should be
deprecated for Boost code?

I also found that one date_time file gregorian_calender.ipp includes 0D 0D 0A
sequences which double spaces it and, more confusingly, confuses the MSVC IDE
editor so that warnings appear on the wrong line :-(

(Perhaps Jeff Garland would like to fix this in gregorian_calender.ipp
sometime?)

I understood that a check program had been devised for this 'mis-feature'.
Was this missed because it is not a C++ type 'known' to the checker program?

Paul

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