Re: [boost] Support for BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION

Subject: Re: [boost] Support for BOOST_NO_TEMPLATE_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
From: Stephen Kelly (steveire_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-12 09:16:50

On 10/10/2013 11:52 PM, Joaquin M Lopez Munoz wrote:
>> > But you wouldn't want to go back and make adjustments in the
>> > current code just to make it non-functional with older compilers,
>> > would you?  What is the return on THAT investment. 
> Cleaner, more readable code (hey, I won't be around forever :-)

Exactly.

Robert, we've been around this roundabout before. Please don't take us
around it again.

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/244216/focus=244218

 * Making the code look more like normal c++ (eg revisions 85957 and
85958), which makes reading/contributing easier.

It is easier to reason about modern code than code which is designed to
accomodate obsolete workarounds.

Thanks,

Steve.