[boost] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Formal Review: FOREACH macro

From: Thorsten Ottosen (nesotto_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-04 09:15:59

"Iain K. Hanson" <iain.hanson_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:1115211567.14534.594.camel_at_dev-ihanson.ct.uk.videonetworks.com...
| On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:38 -0400, Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:

| > With all due respect -- this was written more than 11 years ago -- you
| > cannot literally apply this now...
|
| Why not? The arguments that the chapter uses are as valid today as when
| written.

I think it is fair to say Bjarne would still like to see the preprocessor less 
used, especially in
header files (I'm basing this on proposals like #scope etc).

Nevertheless, the preprocessor is a good way to generate some tedious code; 
just look inside boost.assign.

-Thorsten