Re: [boost] [config] C++0x macros

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 09:18:14

Beman Dawes wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> There is a practical limit on the length of names because the config
>>> mechanism uses them for file names. But perhaps we can make them less
>>> cryptic, and still hold them to a reasonable length, say 32
>>> characters.
>> It's not absolutely essential for the test filenames to have the same name 
>> as the macro - as long as you can find one from the other :-)
>>
>> Personally I'd go for more descriptive names as well,
> 
> That's my preference too, so since we aren't limited by filenames, here 
> is a more explicit set (taking into consideration comments from Doug and 
> others):
> 
> BOOST_NO_DECLTYPE                       // no decltype
> BOOST_NO_LONG_LONG                      // no [unsigned] long long type
> BOOST_NO_RVALUE_REFERENCES              // no r-value references
> BOOST_NO_STATIC_ASSERT                  // no static_assert
> BOOST_NO_VARIADIC_TEMPLATES             // no variadic templates
> BOOST_NO_SCOPED_ENUMS                   // no enum class
> BOOST_NO_RAW_LITERALS                   // no raw character or string
>                                          //  literals
> BOOST_NO_UNICODE_LITERALS               // no Unicode literals
> BOOST_NO_UNICODE_CHAR_TYPES             // no char16_t or char32_t
> BOOST_NO_EXPLICIT_CONVERSION_OPERATIONS // no explicit operator T()
> BOOST_NO_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS              // no = default functions
> BOOST_NO_DELETED_FUNCTIONS              // no = delete functions
> BOOST_NO_CONSTEXPR                      // no constexpr

   BOOST_NO_EXTERN_TEMPLATE                // no extern template

> 
> Iff voted into the WP:
> BOOST_NO_CONCEPTS                       // no concepts
> 
> I'll do BOOST_NO_SCOPED_ENUMS, to make sure I've got the config process 
> right, and then work on the others as time permits.
> 
> --Beman
> 
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