Re: [boost] [fusion] Illegal partial specialization error.

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-11 23:49:11

Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> Michael Marcin wrote:
>> If I include <boost/fusion/support/tag_of.hpp> my compiler (derived from 
>> Metrowerks 9.4) gives me several errors claiming illegal partial 
>> specializations.
>>
>> It looks like it's partially specializing forward declarations of the tag_of 
>> structure.  I don't know if that's allowed (from the error I assume probably 
>> not) but it certainly seems to be pointless to me.  Are these perhaps 
>> supposed to be more than declarations?
> 
> What's the point, if you (partially) specialize it anyway ?
> 
> FWIW, I have seen similar errors with IBM's XLC++ and am pretty sure that
> at least in that particular case it was a compiler bug.

Yes, it's most probably a compiler bug. I've seen this before.
patch welcome ;-). I do not have CW now.

Regards,
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Joel de Guzman
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