[boost] Re: bind.hpp needs a cwpro8 workaround

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-04-21 10:01:56

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I don't have 9 since my beta license expired and a new one hasn't
>> arrived from MW yet.  I could just turn those overloads off for all
>> __MWERKS__ if a conforming compiler shouldn't need them.  Is that
>> what you had in mind?
>
> No, no. The overloads are required to support
>
>     bind<int&>( &X::i, _1 )(x) = 5;
>
> but this is not a critical feature (which is why there are no tests
> for it),

I object.  We should at least be trying to test everything.

> so there isn't much harm if we disable it for CW8. But we shouldn't
> disable it for CW9+ if there's no need. FWIW, my evaluation license
> for CW9.2 expired, too. ;-)

I'm waiting for MWerks to send me a regular copy of pro9, which I had
to ask for explicitly.

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Dave Abrahams
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