Re: [boost] mistaken uses of <iostream>

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-19 22:12:23

Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2006, at 10:20 AM, Howard Hinnant wrote:
>> I did a brief survey of boost 1.33.1 and found many "relaxed" uses of
>> <iostream> under the boost/ directory (i.e. non test-case code).  So
>> in practice it does appear that using <iostream> as a shortcut is
>> considered acceptable practice.  However I wanted to highlight the
>> point just in case people do view this as a bug that has simply snuck
>> in under the radar to date.
> 
> IIRC, at one point we were supporting a platform that had <iostream>  
> but not <istream> or <ostream>, so I got in the habit of using  
> <iostream> despite its cost. That platform might not matter any more,  
> and I'd support fixing Boost's headers to avoid including  
> iostream.... just not for 1.34.0 :)

I agree. I have a vague recollection the platform was GCC, although that 
was many years ago so I may be mistaken.

Out of curiosity, I changed the uses of <iostream> in my local copy of 
the random library to use other std headers, and it still passes 
regression tests for GCC 3.3.4.

--Beman