Re: [boost] Do the Coding Guidelines for Integral Constant Expressions need updating?

Subject: Re: [boost] Do the Coding Guidelines for Integral Constant Expressions need updating?
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-15 17:23:04

Patrick Horgan a écrit :
> I was reading the Integral Constant Expressions doc 
> (http://www.boost.org/development/int_const_guidelines.html), last 
> edited in October 2007, and am guessing that some of the warnings are 
> out of date with newer versions of some of the compilers available.  
> Does anyone know?

They're guidelines if you want compatibility with MSVC6 and that kind of 
old compiler.

My understanding is that it's not mandatory to follow them, and it would 
be expected that all libraries that use fairly advanced template 
meta-programming do not.