Re: [boost] Re: Re: const_string + recursive_variant = boom

From: Matt Austern (austern_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-08 13:09:06

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:09:23 +0300, Maxim Yegorushkin <e-maxim_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Peter Dimov wrote:
> 
> > Eric Friedman wrote:
> > Could you clarify what you mean by
> > standard templates "shall not be used with incomplete types"---does
> > this mean for instance that std::vector<incomplete_t> is undefined?
> 
> >  Yes, and ...
> 
> You can find rationale for that here:
> http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=7986/cujcexp2002austern/

Parts of which are wrong, unfortunately.  But it is still true that
the standard forbids instantiating standard library components with
incomplete types.

          --Matt