Re: [boost] [config] Using SD-6 macros

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] Using SD-6 macros
From: Peter Dimov (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-12 19:06:52

Stephen Kelly wrote:
> The reason for this is literally that the chair of SG-10 didn't want to 
> require the stdlib implementor to have to open another file in their 
> editor to add the macro there.
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.features/17/focus=22
>
> I get headaches thinking of all the reasons that that's absurd.

It's not just the editor. You could have a configuration in which some 
stdlib headers come from one place and some from another. Although one could 
argue that this isn't a reason enough, and I might be inclined to agree.