Re: [boost] MSVC doesn't support "not"?!

Subject: Re: [boost] MSVC doesn't support "not"?!
From: Stephan T. Lavavej (stl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-22 16:50:03

[Daryle Walker]
> This happens with MSVC 10.0 and 11.0.  Hasn't "not" been an alternate symbol for "!" since C++98?
> I'll change it to "!", but that doesn't excuse not fixing it for 15 years!  What happened?
> (I think some of the MSVC authors lurk here.)

[Tim Blechmann]
> #include <ciso646>

Note that VC's <iso646.h>/<ciso646> macroizes the keywords-that-aren't-keywords, which is still not conformant, but vaguely resembles conformance.

I've just reminded our compiler team about this.

Stephan T. Lavavej
Visual C++ Libraries Developer