Re: [boost] New libraries implementing C++11 features in C++03

Subject: Re: [boost] New libraries implementing C++11 features in C++03
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-24 07:48:33

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Gregory Crosswhite
<gcrosswhite_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2011, at 10:17 PM, Dean Michael Berris wrote:
>
>> Seriously, I don't know why people are blaming the libraries when the
>> compilers are the ones generating these error messages. Am I missing
>> something here?
>
> Yes. Â What you are missing is that people just looking to employ a library to make their lives easier don't case *whose* fault it is when the library fails to make their lives easier, they just stop using the library. Â You can say that it is the fault of the compiler rather than the fault of the library, but that doesn't change the experience of using the library.
>

Well, then the person who doesn't put the work in to learn to use the
library *and* learn to read the compiler messages properly is *the*
problem. I seriously think this is a case of PEBKAC. No amount of
library engineering will solve that kind of problem IMO.

Cheers

-- 
Dean Michael Berris
http://goo.gl/CKCJX