RE: [Boost-Users] Re: Type traits direct compiler support

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-15 16:40:56

At 11:11 AM 10/15/2002, scleary_at_[hidden] wrote:

 >> It is the vagueness of the term "compiler support", which you did not
 >> alleviate in your answer, which I am trying to clarify.
 >
 >"Compiler support" means "anything the compiler can give us so that we 
can
 >implement that class correctly".
 >
 >It could be a specially-recognized preprocessor define, a quasi-class
 >(e.g.,
 >SGI's type traits), a pragma, a keyword, or anything else that the 
compiler
 >provides.

Yes. "Compiler support" can be seen as a courtesy by library experts, so 
they aren't trying to tell core language experts exactly how to do 
something.

--Beman