Re: [boost] boost policy against inline friend functions?

Subject: Re: [boost] boost policy against inline friend functions?
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-26 15:48:11

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On Monday 26 October 2009, Stefan Strasser wrote:
> what's wrong with
>     template<class Y> friend bool operator<(shared_ptr<Y> const & rhs)
> const {
>         return pn < rhs.pn;
>     }
> in class shared_ptr?
>
> compiler compatibility? other reasons?
> should boost libraries avoid inline friend functions in general?

Apparently some compilers don't support template friends.  There is the 
BOOST_NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATE_FRIENDS config macro to detect this though.

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