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

From: Joe Gottman (jgottman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 20:21:05

Beman Dawes wrote:
> 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

    BOOST_NO_LAMBDA_FUNCTIONS

Joe Gottman