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: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-16 05:13:38

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On
Behalf Of
> Daniel James
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:51 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Do the Coding Guidelines for Integral Constant
Expressions need
> updating?
> 
> 2009/12/15 Mathias Gaunard <mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]>:
> > 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 October 2007, and am guessing that some of the warnings are out of date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?

> There's a lot of work on the wiki toward establishing new guidelines,
> at some point someone (i.e. not me, I'm afraid) is going to have to
> take charge of combining them with the existing guidelines. It might
> even be worth moving much of the development information over to the
> wiki, which would let the main website focus on users.

A lot of code has flowed under the bridge since 2007 ;-)

I would favour keeping this developers info on the wiki to make it easier to
keep it up to date.

(And replace the document by a link to the wiki).

Paul

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