Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-03 19:59:07

On 03/11/12 23:15, Eric Niebler wrote:

> I'm afraid I thought the same thing when he said this. He has also
> stated publicly that Microsoft won't ever implement 2-phase lookup,
> which, last I checked, is required for 100% std-compliance.

It's not strictly needed, but is pretty much the only realistic way I 
can imagine to implement name lookup correctly.

While name lookup is quite broken in MSVC, the only situations where 
you'd need the correct behaviour are however arguably bad style.