Re: [boost] Yap's formal review is starting now!

Subject: Re: [boost] Yap's formal review is starting now!
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-16 17:37:57

AMDG

On 02/16/2018 10:15 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Steven Watanabe wrote:
> 
>> (I definitely object to (2) and as for (3), well, if users don't want
>> to use hana, it's their loss.)
> 
> You keep implying that not using Hana is a choice done for irrational
> reasons such as, for instance, "avoiding a dependency", rather than, for
> instance, being forced by the fact that Hana does not compile on MSVC.
> 

  That might be a reasonable argument if Yap itself
were not a C++14 library.  According the hana
Jamfile, the reason hana is not supported for msvc
is cxx14_constexpr, which Yap also uses.

> Why do you do this, and what do you expect to gain from that, I don't know.
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe