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From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-03-24 19:18:57


On 24/03/2020 19:06, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:
> Jeff Garland wrote:
>
>> The suppression macro would need to go into the header, but it
>> wouldn't solve the issue for a lexical_cast user.
>
> The issue for the lexical_cast user is that his code will break when
> Math drops C++03 support, and the whole point of the message is to
> communicate this.
>
> The message is supposed to be verbose and annoying, because otherwise
> nobody will pay any attention to it. Sure, the user has no immediate
> recourse; he can only apply pressure on the lexical_cast maintainers
> to deal with it somehow. But again, if there's no message, nobody will
> care.

Haha, yes, that's basically why I made it so... annoying.

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