Re: [Boost-users] Header file granularity policy?

From: Dave Steffen (dgsteffen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-21 11:27:36

Jeff Garland writes:
 > Scott Meyers wrote:
[...]

 > > I find that this kind of inconsistency among libraries degrades
 > > my experience as a Boost user, especially when I'm first learning
 > > to use a library.  More than once I've spent time puzzling over a
 > > compilation error, only to discover that my mistake was not
 > > including a needed header.  (I seem to make this error most
 > > commonly when using Lambda.)
 > 
 > Yeah, that's happened to me before too.

 Me too (never used Lambda, but uBlas has, or at least had, similar
 problems); however, I attributed my problem not to an inconsistent
 Boost policy, but to a deficiency in the documentation, which
 (sometimes) tells you everything you might ever want to know except
 which headers to include. :-)

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