[boost] Re: typeof and Visual C++

From: Arkadiy Vertleyb (vertleyb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-30 09:51:03

"Peder Holt" <peder.holt_at_[hidden]> wrote
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Hey, welcome back!
How was your vacation?

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> Wow. Very impressive. What a pity noone has thought of that earlier...

How is one supposed to think of something like this?  The next thing we find
out -- VC might already have an undocumented typeof -- just called
differently :-)

> I have modified the current vintage implementation to use this form of
> typeof, allowing it to compile with VC6.5 as well.

Did you remove __if_exists/if_not_exists stuff?  This would mean it would
also compile with the language extentions disabled...
>
> I guess this deprecates most of the vintage code, since that was
> implemented in order to allow support of VC6.5 and VC7.0.
>
And also removes half of the users from the compliant implementation.
Really, how many are left if gcc has native typeof, and vc7 uses this
stuff??

Well, competition is competition...

I think we should contact the guy and ask if he is interested in working
with us.  If not -- we can use his code, but I think this would be fair to
ask.   I'll do this later today.

Regards,
Arkadiy