[boost] Re: win32.hpp and min/max macros

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-02 11:57:54

John Maddock wrote:
>>There are known ways of dealing with this problem. Putting parens around
>>the min and max identifiers prevents the macro invocation. For instance,
>>
>>     std::max( a, b );  ==>  (std::max)( a, b );
> 
> True, but it's a horrible fix, to be blunt why should Boost authors be
> forced to mangle their perfectly conforming code in order to support one
> non-conforming system?

For the same reason that Boost authors mangle their perfectly conforming 
code with horrible macros like BOOST_NESTED_TEMPLATE, 
BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT, etc.  Namely, to make it easy to use Boost on the 
widest number of platforms possible.

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Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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