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

Subject: Re: [boost] [config] Using SD-6 macros
From: Stephen Kelly (hello_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-06-16 16:59:25

Rob Stewart wrote:

> On June 13, 2015 2:30:51 AM EDT, Stephen Kelly <hello_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Peter Dimov wrote:
>> > 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.
>> > 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> You would? Wow. Ok.
> 
> I suspect you didn't read Peter's statement correctly. He was saying he's
> inclined to agree that headers coming from multiple places is not a
> sufficient reason for embedding the SD-6 macro in the various standard
> library headers instead of in one.

I think you're right, thanks! Sorry for misreading.

Steve.