Re: [boost] [config] Macro for null pointer

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] Macro for null pointer
From: Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr. (jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-11-30 02:19:26

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr.
> <jeffrey.hellrung_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Andrey Semashev <
> andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> My main point is that
> >> nullptr should "just work" (tm) by default.
> >>
> >
> > But, it kinda doesn't "just work" if correct and robust use requires a
> > conditional using declaration. And, at that point, what use is the "using
> > boost::nullptr" at global scope anyway, if it's conditional on a
> > configuration macro?
>
> The config macro is only used to solve problems, should they arise.
> Other than that nullptr will work after simply including the header.
> And I'm sure in 99.9% of cases this will be the case.
>

Just to be clear, the conditional using declaration I was referring to is
the one you suggested clients should use in their code, whereas you seem to
be referring to the using declaration in the boost/utility/nullptr.hpp
header. Is that right, and is my interpretation of your suggestion correct?

- Jeff