Re: [boost] OK to remove Concept related config macros?

Subject: Re: [boost] OK to remove Concept related config macros?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-15 05:24:44

>>> I notice we have some Boost.Config macros related to C++0x concepts, 
>>> except of course concepts are no longer part of C++0x... anyone object 
>>> if I remove these along with their associated tests?
>> I know that some people are implementing concepts in clang, and hoping to 
>> look at getting them into the next version of C++.

Indeed, but there are no *current* compilers using them, and they won't be 
part of C++0x so at the very least the macros are misnamed.

> Nothing in Boost is going to be needing
> these macros in the foreseeable future.
> We can them back in 10 years if we need to.

Indeed, and in any case C++2x concepts may look quite different to the 0x 
proposal, Oh and no Boost code seems to depend upon these either...

Cheers, John.