Re: [Boost-users] #include directives

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-03 08:08:42

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:09:23 +0100, Louis Lavery
<louis_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>Just curious as to why boost mixes its #include
>directives. For instance in boost/any.hpp we
>have...
>
>#include "boost/config.hpp"
>#include <boost/throw_exception.hpp>
>
>...(this is from boost_1_32_0).

Because people don't pay attention. There was an IMHO justified
proposal by Beman Dawes to replace the <> form (which was used for
historical reasons) with the quoted one but everyone kept arguing
instead of fixing their code. That led to the following DR, which is
IMHO only wasting committee time:

  <http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/cwg_active.html#370>

--
Genny.