Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow

Subject: Re: [boost] C++ announcements coming tomorrow
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-04 06:48:07

>> > 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.

... well, some workaronds for msvc lookup bugs tend to result in code,
which i'd consider as `bad style' ... this is basically the reason, why
[1] is not fixed.

tim

[1] https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/7358