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

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-09 14:38:14

in vs.net 2003 you can   menu->tools->options->projects->VC++Build
add  *.ipp  to the list
things then hilight, etc, just fine

At Friday 2003-08-08 07:47, you wrote:
>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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