Re: [Boost-Users] A strange question-)

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-09 06:32:25

> I have a question that may appear somewhat strange-). I am working with
> Partial Template Specialization and in particular how VC++ 7.1's
> upcoming compiler supports it 100%. To that end, I would like to look at
> and compile Boost code that makes particular use of this 1) to make sure
> it compiles 2) show it working with VC++ 7.1, 3) Able to grok in fairly
> short period of time and use in small pieces of demo code. I see a lot
> of interesting possible things in Boost but 2 things that came to mind:
> Smart Pointers (scoped_ptr) and concepts. Are there better ones for my
> purposes and/or better "consumers" of partial templates?

I don't know if this answers your question, but VC7.1 correctly handles all
of boost as far as I know - in fact boost was used as a test bed for early
alpha compiler versions.

John Maddock
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/index.htm