Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Variadics suggestion

Subject: Re: [boost] [preprocessor] Variadics suggestion
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-09 21:14:19

on Mon Oct 08 2012, Paul Mensonides <pmenso57-AT-comcast.net> wrote:

> There is another issue I have with submitting Chaos to Boost.  Boost 
> currently requires the use of .hpp file suffixes.  However, like 
> Boost.Preprocessor, but unlike all of the rest of Boost, Chaos is a C 
> library also.  The rule should be amended to allow for headers which are 
> not specifically C++ headers.  Chaos uses the generic .h for precisely 
> this reason.  Note that if .hpp is required, I simply will not submit the 
> library.  No hacks--including those introduced to workaround rules which 
> should not apply.

I'm not attached to that rule for non-C++ code.

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